Table 2.
Proportion of checkout food exposures and foods near checkouts that were less healthy, by checkout food policy category, in a survey conducted in all stores (n 33) in seven major UK supermarket groups open for business in one city in Eastern England, June–July 2017
| Supermarket group (format) | Checkout food policy category | Stores (n) | Checkouts (n) | Mean checkouts per store (n) | Checkout food exposures | Foods near, but not at, checkouts | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less healthy | Healthier | Total | Less healthy | Healthier | Total | |||||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | n | % | n | % | n | |||||
| 2 (format b) | None | 4 | 32 | 8·0 | 930 | 77·1 | 277 | 22·9 | 1207 | 140 | 75·3 | 46 | 24·7 | 186 |
| 5 | None | 11 | 71 | 6·5 | 1054 | 68·7 | 481 | 31·3 | 1535 | 722 | 72·0 | 281 | 28·0 | 1003 |
| Sub-total | None | 15 | 103 | 6·9 | 1984 | 72·4 | 758 | 27·6 | 2742 | 862 | 72·5 | 327 | 27·5 | 1189 |
| 2 (format a) | Vague or inconsistent | 2 | 60 | 30·0 | 3323 | 87·9 | 456 | 12·1 | 3779 | 87 | 49·7 | 88 | 50·3 | 175 |
| 3 | Vague or inconsistent | 1 | 30 | 30·0 | 551 | 64·7 | 301 | 35·3 | 852 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Vague or inconsistent | 2 | 42 | 21·0 | 364 | 50·4 | 358 | 49·6 | 722 | 91 | 63·6 | 52 | 36·4 | 143 |
| 7 | Vague or inconsistent | 4 | 40 | 10·0 | 668 | 56·8 | 508 | 43·2 | 1176 | 327 | 78·8 | 88 | 21·2 | 415 |
| Sub-total | Vague or inconsistent | 9 | 172 | 19·1 | 4906 | 75·1 | 1623 | 24·9 | 6529 | 505 | 68·9 | 228 | 31·1 | 733 |
| 1 | Clear & consistent | 8 | 80 | 10 | 960 | 54·5 | 803 | 45·5 | 1763 | 399 | 63·0 | 234 | 37·0 | 633 |
| 4 | Clear & consistent | 1 | 10 | 10 | 160 | 40·0 | 240 | 60·0 | 400 | 3 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Sub-total | Clear & consistent | 9 | 90 | 10 | 1120 | 51·8 | 1043 | 48·3 | 2163 | 402 | 63·2 | 234 | 36·8 | 636 |
| Total | All stores | 33 | 365 | 11·1 | 8010 | 70·1 | 3424 | 29·9 | 11 434 | 1769 | 69·2 | 789 | 30·8 | 2558 |