Factors associated with supermarket and convenience store closure: a discrete time spatial survival modelling approach.

ABSTRACT: While there is a literature on the distribution of food stores across geographic and social space, much of this research uses cross-sectional data. Analyses attempting to understand whether the availability of stores across neighborhoods is associated with diet and/or health outcomes are limited by a lack of understanding of factors that shape the emergence of new stores and the closure of others. We used quarterly data on supermarket and convenience store locations spanning seven years (2006-2012) and tract-level census data in four US cities: Birmingham, Alabama; Chicago, Illinois; Minneapolis, Minnesota; San Francisco, California. A spatial discrete-time survival model was used to identify factors associated with an earlier and/or later closure time of a store. Sales volume was typicall

SUBMITTER: Warren JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5990034 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature