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, we point to continued declines in consumers’ economic and financial outlooks. In addition to our usual weekly findings on consumer sentiment, activities and shopping patterns, we spotlight social commerce, revealing which social media platforms are popular for shopping and which product categories are bought at the highest rates.

The latest data in this report are from our survey conducted on March 10, 2025.

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

• Consumers’ expectations for the economy overall and for their personal financial situation—in total and by income
• Social commerce—whether consumers have used social media as part of the shopping process in the past three months; and popular platforms and product categories shopped on social media
• 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: Facebook, TikTok, YouTube

Other relevant research:

• Inflation Up, Sentiment Down: Alarm Bells for the US Consumer Economy?
• February 2025 US Retail Sales: First Year-Over-Year Drop Since the Pandemic—Electronics and Department Stores Lead Declines
• Navigating TikTok’s Uncertainty: Analyzing Challenges and Emerging User Migration Trends
• All our coverage of digital commerce
• Coresight Research US Consumer Survey Databank provides additional insight into US consumer behaviors from our weekly surveys.