Responses to Inflation—Fewer Shoppers Are Buying Less: 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.

In this report, our new findings are from a survey conducted on July 8, 2024. In addition to our usual weekly data, we dive into consumers’ current perceptions of and responses to inflation.

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

• Consumers’ perceptions of and responses to inflation, and its impact on grocery and nongrocery spending
• 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: Aldi, Amazon, Albertsons, Ahold Delhaize, Costco, Dollar General, Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, Kohl’s, Kroger, Macy’s, Target, Walmart

Other relevant research:

• 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.