Table 3.
Weekly sales of promoted foods at baseline and post-intervention for intervention corner stores (n 7) v. comparison corner stores (n 6): Baltimore Healthy Stores (BHS) programme
| Promoted food | Unit sale difference* |
P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention |
Comparison |
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| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Low-sugar cereals (box) | 3·9 | 8·8 | −1·9 | 1·4 | 0·13 |
| High-fibre cereals (box) | −0·8 | 2·1 | −2·8 | 2·6 | 0·20 |
| Low-fat milk (gallon) | −0·4 | 1·3 | −1·9 | 2·7 | 0·23 |
| Cooking spray (can) | 0·3 | 0·5 | −0·5 | 0·6 | 0·05 |
| Baked/low-fat chips (bag) | 1·1 | 2·0 | 0 | 0 | 0·13 |
| Low-salt crackers (bag) | 0·3 | 0·8 | −0·4 | 0·7 | 0·13 |
| Whole wheat bread (loaf) | 0·4 | 6·2 | −1·9 | 8·3 | 0·71 |
| Diet soda/diet drinks | −10·0 | 39·2 | 10·5 | 29·5 | 0·58 |
| 100 % fruit juice (bottle) | 4·9 | 39·4 | −10·6 | 59·8 | 0·63 |
| Water (bottle) | −15·8 | 91·9 | −2·2 | 56·5 | 0·83 |
Significance indicated at P<0·05.
*
Actual number of units sold was collected using the weekly food sales records and assessment of sales of promoted food was based on storeowners’ recall.