Table 1.
Consumer purchases at small retail stores
| Store type N (%) of consumers at each store type | Total consumers N (%) | ||||
| Lunchbars/delis | Independent grocers association stores | Newsagents | Other independent grocers | ||
| Main reason for visiting the store | |||||
| Hot food | 470 (69.9) | 10 (2.4) | 13 (4.0) | 1 (1.4) | 494 (33.2) |
| Groceries | 41 (6.1) | 243 (57.7) | 8 (2.5) | 46 (63.0) | 338 (22.7) |
| Lottery tickets | 4 (0.6) | 8 (1.9) | 208 (64.8) | 0 (0.0) | 220 (14.8) |
| Cold drinks | 67 (10.0) | 47 (11.2) | 10 (3.1) | 10 (13.7) | 134 (9.0) |
| Snack food | 47 (7.0) | 43 (10.2) | 6 (1.9) | 10 (13.7) | 106 (7.1) |
| Newspapers | 9 (1.3) | 5 (1.2) | 38 (11.8) | 2 (2.7) | 54 (3.6) |
| Tobacco | 8 (1.0) | 17 (4.0) | 12 (3.7) | 0 (0.0) | 37 (2.5) |
| Milk | 5 (0.7) | 20 (4.8) | 1 (0.3) | 1 (1.4) | 27 (1.8) |
| Other | 9 (1.3) | 9 (2.1) | 19 (5.9) | 2 (2.7) | 39 (2.6) |
| Bread | 3 (0.4) | 16 (3.8) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 20 (1.3) |
| Gifts | 1 (0.1) | 3 (0.7) | 5 (1.6) | 0 (0.0) | 9 (0.6) |
| Coffee | 9 (1.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 9 (0.6) |
| Tobacco purchases | |||||
| Did not purchase tobacco | 641 (95.4) | 362 (86.0) | 296 (92.2) | 67 (91.8) | 1366 (91.9) |
| Purchased tobacco | 31 (4.6) | 59 (14.0) | 25 (7.8) | 6 (8.2) | 121 (8.1) |
| Planned and unplanned purchases of non-tobacco products† | |||||
| Planned purchase of non-tobacco product (by consumers who did not purchase tobacco) | 254 (39.6) | 48 (13.2) | 40 (13.5) | 11 (16.4) | 353 (25.8)* |
| Planned purchase of non-tobacco product (by consumers who purchased tobacco) | 8 (25.8) | 2 (3.4) | 1 (4.0) | 0 (0.0) | 11 (9.1) |
| Unplanned purchase of non-tobacco product (by consumers who did not purchase tobacco) | 57 (8.8) | 57 (15.7) | 18 (6.1) | 13 (19.4) | 145 (10.6) |
| Unplanned purchase of non-tobacco product (by consumers who purchased tobacco) | 5 (16.1) | 5 (8.5) | 1 (4.0) | 0 (0.0) | 11 (9.1) |
| Usual purchasing location for tobacco products‡ | |||||
| Purchased at usual location | 7 (25.9) | 39 (66.1) | 7 (28.0) | 4 (66.7) | 57 (48.7) |
| Do not have a usual purchasing location | 16 (59.2) | 18 (30.5) | 16 (64.0) | 0 (0.0) | 50 (42.7) |
| Not purchased at usual location | 4 (14.8) | 2 (3.4) | 2 (8.0) | 2 (33.3) | 10 (8.6) |
| Supermarket§ | 4 (100.0) | 2 (100.0) | 2 (100.0) | 2 (100.0) | 10 (100.0) |
*P<0.001.
†After identifying their main reason for visiting the store and corresponding purchase, consumers were asked ‘Did you purchase any other products?’ and, if an additional purchase was identified, ‘Did you plan to purchase this product prior to entering the store?’.
‡Usual purchasing location asked only of consumers’ who purchased tobacco; respondents to usual purchasing question n=117, N and % of respondents reported.
§Consumers who did not purchase at their usual location were asked ‘Where do you usually purchase tobacco products?’.