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. 2011 Feb 12;40(4):572–586. doi: 10.1007/s11747-010-0244-z

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics, category level

Total annual turnover* Number of top items Average daily price** Supported Price Promotions Unsupported Price Promotions
Number of days Number of days discount exceeds 5% Average daily discount (%) Number of days Number of days discount exceeds 5% Average daily discount (%)
Aperitif product categories
 
 Bottle of beer, 1 l 51.78 5 0.66 (4.95) 36 35 4.36 75 47 5.48
 Can of beer, 33 cl 146.52 4 0.28 (2.88) 67 62 10.66 82 72 6.58
 Can of mussels 23.34 9 1.06 (16.47) 89 89 24.16 160 130 14.62
 Can of cockles 75.48 20 1.94 (29.88) 30 28 15.18 147 119 5.25
 Can of clams 13.86 4 1.14 (34.37) 71 71 16.64 164 126 10.21
 Can of tuna in oil 16.68 6 1.01 (9.54) 89 77 8.84 156 123 8.72
 Can of asparagus 22.98 11 1.40 (18.20) 18 18 17.54 133 90 10.45
 Bottle of red wine 18.06 12 1.57 (19.19) 16 14 5.21 176 125 9.41
 Bottle of white/rose wine 68.52 16 2.15 (17.11) 17 16 7.25 144 93 7.73
 Bag of potato chips 68.88 13 0.88 (15.09) 13 13 4.99 201 201 18.63
 Can of stuffed olives 42.36 8 0.64 (8.10) 33 33 16.22 209 164 9.59
 Can of razorshells 12.66 6 1.98 (22.10) 11 11 1.54 32 21 3.14
 
Breakfast product categories
 
 Juice mini brick 68.28 15 1.03 (1.22) 35 35 13.19 207 135 5.12
 Bottle of juice, 1 l 66.36 22 0.61 (0.77) 47 47 5.99 398 343 15.67
 Pack of standard cookies 44.76 10 1.09 (2.31) 28 25 9.91 192 95 6.55
 Pack of filled cookies 35.34 9 0.60 (1.62) 20 19 8.91 187 76 4.59
 Pack of soluble cocoa 63.00 6 3.54 (3.11) 19 13 7.28 206 84 4.69
 Pack of soluble coffee 90.54 6 2.53 (0.71) 45 0 2.15 179 2 1.87
 Pack of normal coffee 55.80 13 1.14 (2.55) 64 60 9.75 203 170 7.78
 Brick of unskimmed milk 1 l 174.66 13 0.61 (0.85) 29 29 3.90 113 41 1.70
 Brick of skimmed milk, 1 l 47.22 6 0.58 (0.53) 15 13 2.76 81 29 1.25
 Brick of semi-skimmed milk, 1 l 74.28 7 0.59 (0.58) 5 2 0.90 108 5 2.10
 Brick of enriched milk, 1 l 115.20 14 0.74 (10.83) 2 2 0.56 25 15 1.33
 Pack of cereal 55.56 23 1.57 (14.13) 6 6 2.44 204 131 6.58
 Pack of normal sugar, 1 kg 42.00 1 0.93 (0.00) 0 0 0.00 2 2 0.00

*Turnover is measured in thousands of Euros. **Standard deviations are in parentheses.