Responses to Inflation and Financial Resilience—Strategic Purchasing Behavior: US Consumer Survey Insights

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 (with the latest data from our September 23, 2024, survey), we dive into consumer’s responses to inflation and their self-reported financial resilience.

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

• Consumers’ perceptions of inflation, and its impact on grocery and nongrocery spending
• How long consumers could cover their bills after losing their income, and unsecured debt as a proportion of monthly household income
• 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
• Consumers’ expectations for the economy overall and for their own personal financial situation

Companies mentioned in this research report include: Amazon, Costco, Walmart

Other relevant research:

• The Coresight Research US Consumer Survey Databank provides additional insight into US consumer behaviors from our weekly surveys.