Table 3.

Average household expenditures ($) on each type of food and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) by store type among the subset of households that made at least one purchase of the particular type of food or SSBs in each type of store, 2013

Store types	Unhealthy foods and beverages									Healthy foods
	Salty snacks			Sweets			SSBs			Fruits			Vegetables
	n*	Mean†	SD	n	Mean	SD	n	Mean	SD	n	Mean	SD	n	Mean	SD
Full-service supermarkets	67	5.24	4.75	109	8.32	8.22	97	5.46	4.27	113	6.15	5.91	115	7.99	8.19
Mass merchandisers/discount grocery stores	41	4.19	2.53	56	8.36	10.53	31	3.82	2.90	50	6.15	6.56	49	5.83	4.94
Convenience stores	52	3.83	3.27	76	3.29	2.74	56	2.98	2.33	16	2.24	1.39	5	1.40	0.49
Other	10	3.72	2.25	7	9.03	12.99	6	1.96	1.71	7	6.21	7.83	7	9.86	12.40

^*The numbers shown in all of the “n” columns in the table are the number of households that made at least one purchase of the corresponding type of food or SSB in the store type. For example, n=67 for purchases of salty snacks in full-service supermarkets indicates that 67 households returned receipts showing a purchase of salty snacks in a full-service supermarket.

^†The numbers shown in the “Mean” columns in the table are the average amount of money spent on the corresponding type of food or SSB in the store type across households among the subset of households that made at least one purchase of the food type or SSB in the store type. For example, the mean of $5.24 shown in the cell corresponding to salty snacks and full-service supermarkets indicates that, on average, the 67 households that purchased salty snacks in full-service supermarkets spent $5.24 on salty snacks in full-service supermarkets.