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.

The latest data in this report are from our survey conducted on May 19, 2025. In addition to our usual weekly findings on consumer sentiment, activities and shopping patterns, we discuss how shoppers perceive and are responding to inflation. Headline findings reveal an uptick in financial optimism and a decline in inflation awareness.

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

• Consumers’ expectations for the economy overall and for their personal financial situation—plus, breakdowns of our findings by income
• Consumers’ perceptions of inflation, and its impact on grocery and nongrocery spending
• 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: Aldi, Amazon, Costco, Dollar General, Kroger, Target, Walmart

Other relevant research:

• May 2025 US Retail Sales Outlook: Projecting 3% Growth Amid Low Sentiment and Front-Loaded Purchases
• All our coverage of tariffs and inflation
• Coresight Research US Consumer Survey Databank provides additional insight into US consumer behaviors from our weekly surveys.
• The Weekly US Consumer Sentiment infographic series highlights key Coresight Research findings on economic and financial expectations in the context of shifts in the macroeconomic landscape.