US Consumer Tracker: Consumers Spend Stimulus Checks on Bills and Essentials (Full Report)

What's Inside

Coresight Research’s February 8 survey provides a detailed update on US consumers’ behaviors, concerns and expectations amid the coronavirus crisis, with a focus on the implications for US retail.

Our tracker questions cover the following:

• How consumers have spent or plan to spend their second stimulus checks
• What product categories respondents had purchased in-store and online in the past two weeks
• Which retailers respondents had bought food and nonfood products from in the past two weeks
• What activities respondents have done in the past two weeks
• Whether respondents are currently avoiding public areas—and which types of places they are avoiding

We also present findings and trend data on what consumers are buying more and less of than pre-pandemic.

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CONTENTS

What’s the Story?

How Consumers Used and Plan To Use Their Stimulus Checks

Consumers Use Stimulus Checks on Essentials

What Shoppers Are Buying and Which Retailers They Are Buying From

What Consumers Bought In-Store and Online

Which Retailers Consumers Purchased Food and Nonfood Products From

What Shoppers Are Doing and Where They Are Going

Consumers Appear Cautious

Nearly 85% of Consumers Are Currently Avoiding Public Places

Reviewing Trend Data in Current Purchasing Behavior 

What Consumers Are Currently Buying More Of and Less Of

What We Think

Methodology