Seasonal Shopping, 3Q24—Expectations for Paris Summer Olympics and More: US Consumer Survey Insights Extra

What's Inside

The Coresight Research monthly US Consumer Survey Insights Extra series offers a more detailed or specific take on trends and data from our weekly surveys of US consumers.

This month, we continue our quarterly Seasonal Shopping series. We assess consumers’ holiday shopping expectations for calendar events in the third quarter of 2024 (3Q24, July–September): the Fourth of July, Amazon’s Prime Day, Summer Olympics and Labor Day. We also look ahead to the 2024 end-of-year holiday season.

This report includes a recap of 2Q24 holidays, analyzing how consumers celebrated Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Memorial Day, and comparing their actual behavior to their earlier plans.

The appendix of this report provides results on consumers’ shopping behaviors from our weekly survey questions aggregated in four-week increments over the past few months.

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

• Whether US consumers expect to celebrate and spend on key holidays in 3Q24
• How much consumers expect to spend on key holidays in 3Q24—compared to last year and in dollar terms
• What activities consumers plan to do to celebrate the 3Q24 events
• Consumers’ spending expectations for the 2024 holiday season
• Consumers’ behavior and spending during key holidays in 2Q24

Other relevant research:

• Holiday 2024: Early US Retail Outlook
• Amazon Prime Day 2024: Preview—Five Key Insights
• US Back to School 2024: Retail Outlook
• Read the full series of US Consumer Survey Insights and US Consumer Survey Insights Extra reports.
• The Coresight Research US Consumer Survey Databank provides additional insight into US consumer behaviors from our weekly surveys.