What's Inside

The Coresight Research weekly US Consumer Survey Insights series takes a regular temperature check on US consumers’ behaviors and sentiment, based on exclusive proprietary survey data.

This week, in addition to our usual weekly findings on consumer sentiment, activities and shopping patterns, we dive into findings on home (furnishings and furniture) and home-improvement shopping specifically. Uncover shopping rates, popular retailers and the most bought categories in these sectors.

The latest data in this report are from our survey conducted on March 3, 2025, with headline findings on the dominance of Amazon, Walmart and The Home Depot by home and home-improvement shopper penetration. We also highlight a negative turn in consumers’ financial outlook.

Data in this research report are our latest proprietary survey findings on:

• Whether consumers have bought home-furnishings and home-improvement products in the past three months
• Popular retailers and product categories among home-furnishings and home-improvement shoppers
• Consumers’ expectations for the economy overall and for their own personal financial situation—plus, breakdowns of our findings by income
• Where consumers have bought food and nonfood products from in the last two weeks
• What consumers have bought in-store and online in the last two weeks
• Activities that consumers have done in the past two weeks

Companies mentioned in this research report include: Amazon, Lowe’s, The Home Depot, Walmart

Other relevant research:

• US Home and Home Improvement—Retail 2025 Sector Outlook
• All our coverage of home and home-improvement retailing
• Inflation Up, Sentiment Down: Alarm Bells for the US Consumer Economy?
• February 2025 US Retail Sales Outlook: Growth Set for a Slowdown in February and March
• Coresight Research US Consumer Survey Databank provides additional insight into US consumer behaviors from our weekly surveys.