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Food-purchasing patterns for home: a grocery store-intercept survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

Sunmi Yoo ,
Tom Baranowski ,
Mariam Missaghian ,
Janice Baranowski ,
Karen Cullen ,
Jennifer O Fisher ,
Kathy Watson ,
Issa F Zakeri  and
Theresa Nicklas
Sunmi Yoo
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030-2600, USA Department of Family Medicine, Inje University Sanggyepaik Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Tom Baranowski*
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030-2600, USA
Mariam Missaghian
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030-2600, USA
Janice Baranowski
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030-2600, USA
Karen Cullen
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030-2600, USA
Jennifer O Fisher
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030-2600, USA
Kathy Watson
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030-2600, USA
Issa F Zakeri
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030-2600, USA
Theresa Nicklas
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030-2600, USA
*
*Corresponding author: Email tbaranow@bcm.tmc.edu
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Abstract

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Objectives

To identify the most common frequency of food-purchasing patterns and relate this pattern to characteristics of individuals and families.

Design

A customer-intercept survey was conducted in the greater Houston area, Texas, USA, in 2002. The frequency of food shopping at supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants to buy food for eating at home was assessed.

Subjects

A total of 823 adults (78.5% female; mean age 37.4 years) who went to any of several grocery or convenience stores, including European, Hispanic and African Americans, and Asian/Pacific Islanders.

Results

Major food-shopping patterns were a weekly big trip with a few small trips (34.9%), biweekly big trips with a few small trips (21.9%), no big shopping trips (15.4%), a weekly big trip without small trips (13.9%), a monthly big trip (8.3%), and biweekly big trips without small trips (6.4%). While 61.1% of participants never went to convenience stores to buy fruit and vegetables (F&V) for eating at home, 67% went to restaurants for F&V. African American families shopped for food least frequently, while Asian American families shopped for food most frequently. Educational level was negatively associated with the use of convenience stores and positively associated with takeaway from restaurants.

Conclusions

There is substantial variability in the frequency of food shopping. Future research on food shopping should incorporate this variable.

Keywords

Food-shopping practicesFood availabilityCustomer-intercept surveyFruitVegetablesEthnic diversity
Type
Research Article
Information
Public Health Nutrition , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , May 2006 , pp. 384 - 393
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2006

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