Consumers’ Sustainability Preferences—Tangible, Consumer-Facing Elements Are Crucial: US Consumer Survey Insights Extra

What's Inside

The Coresight Research monthly US Consumer Survey Insights Extra series offers a more detailed or specific take on trends and data from our weekly surveys of US consumers. In this report, we explore how shoppers’ concerns around sustainable products and practices have changed over the past year.

We also include results from our weekly survey questions through October 23, 2023, aggregated in four-week increments over the past seven months, increasing the sample size of each period from about 400 to about 1,600.

Data in this research report are our proprietary survey data on:

• The extent to which the issue of sustainability affects which retailers shoppers purchase essential and discretionary products from
• Which aspects of sustainability consumers are most concerned about
• Aggregated monthly data on activities, avoidance, online and in-store shopping, and food and nonfood retailers consumers shopped with, April–October 2023

Companies mentioned in this report include: Aldi, Amazon, Albertsons, Ahold Delhaize, Costco, Dollar General, Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, Kroger, Target, Walmart

Other relevant research:

• Read the full series of US Consumer Survey Insights reports
• The Coresight Research US Consumer Survey Insights Databank provides insight into US consumer behaviors from our weekly surveys
• More research reports on sustainability