US Survey Update: Consumers Increasingly Avoiding Public Places and Shifting More Apparel Spending Online (Select Findings)

What's Inside

This report provides select findings from Coresight Research’s July 22 survey of US consumers on the coronavirus crisis. We asked respondents about the impact of the pandemic on their behaviors and expectations, with a focus on implications for retailers.

This report is available for free and can be accessed by registering for a free account. Selected findings in this report include:

• Whether respondents are currently avoiding public areas or travel.
• Whether respondents are buying more apparel online than they used to.
• Whether respondents expect to retain behaviors from the coronavirus outbreak period over the long term.

Our full report is available to premium subscribers and includes further findings:

• A full list of the public areas or travel that consumers are avoiding
• What activities respondents have done in the past two weeks and what they expect to do in the next two weeks
• Whether respondents are buying more or less of any retail categories as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak and, if so, which types of products
• Whether US shoppers are making more purchases online during the coronavirus outbreak and, if so, which categories

Our latest research provides an update to our previous reports, which were based on surveys undertaken on July 15, July 8, July 1, June 24, June 17,  June 10, June 3, May 27, May 20, May 13, May 6, April 29, April 22, April 15, April 8, April 1, March 25 and March 17–18.

In addition to this survey, Coresight Research is publishing ongoing coverage on the coronavirus outbreak, which can be accessed here.