Table 2.

Mean and Median Number of Cash Registers and Store Hours Open Per Week, by Type of Food Store, Albany, Columbia County, and Greene County, New York, 2003

Type of Food Storea	Total	No. of Cash Registers (ci)b		No. of Hours Open Per Week (hi)b		Adjustment Weight (wi)b
		Mean	Median	Mean	Median	Mean	Median
Super producec	16	9.2	7.0	117.2	105.0	2.9	3.0
Year-round produced	54	1.7	2.0	91.6	84.0	1.2	1.0
Seasonal producee	26	2.0	1.0	42.6	49.0	0.5	0.5
Fruit-for-snackf	37	1.4	1.0	113.4	119.0	1.2	1.0
Non-F&V	130	1.6	1.0	104.7	105.0	1.2	1.0
Total food stores	263	2.1	1.0	97.9	98.0	1.2	1.0

Abbreviation: F&V, fruit and vegetable.

^a Food store categorized as an F&V store if it stocked at least 2 types of fresh fruit, excluding lemons and limes, and at least 3 types of fresh vegetables, including at least 1 dark-green or orange-colored vegetable.

^b wi = (1 + nlog ci )(hi / 98), where wi = adjustment weight, ci = number of cash registers, and hi = business hours per week. A constant of 98 is used for hi, if hi >98.

^c An F&V store defined as a supermarket with a produce department.

^d An F&V store defined as a nonsupermarket store that operates year-round and includes grocery stores, convenience stores, and specialty food stores.

^e An F&V store that includes seasonal farm (ie, barn) stores, roadside huts and stands, and farmers' markets.

^f Defined as stores carrying at least 1 type of ready-to-eat fresh fruit, such as apples, oranges, and bananas. Although these stores did not meet the F&V measure, they were not categorized as non-F&V stores.