What's Inside

In this report, our new findings are from a survey conducted on May 20, 2024. We present our latest monthly data on consumers’ financial resilience as well as our weekly findings on consumer sentiment, activities and shopping patterns.

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

• Consumers’ financial resilience—how long they could cover their bills after losing their income, expectations of receiving a financial windfall in the next 12 months, and unsecured debt as a proportion of monthly household income
• Consumers’ expectations for the economy overall and for their own personal financial situation
• Activities that consumers have done in the past two weeks
• 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

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

Other relevant research:

• Analyst Corner—Checking In on the Financial Health of the US Consumer, with John Mercer
• Read the full series of US Consumer Survey Insights reports
• The Coresight Research US Consumer Survey Databank provides additional insight into US consumer behaviors from our weekly surveys.