Consumption

Valentine’s Day is now widely celebrated all over the world: Majorities in most of 28 countries surveyed plan to do something special with their loved one this February 14.

Few countries experience meaningful change in sentiment.

How and where the world shops and dines transformed during the coronavirus pandemic. As health orders in many countries have called for sheltering in place and minimizing non-essential trips to curb the spread of the virus, consumers throughout the world report eating in-restaurant less often (63% on average across 28 countries) and shopping online more often (43%) than they did before the pandemic. However, buying locally – whether from local farmers and manufacturers, local businesses, or local restaurants – is largely unchanged compared to before the pandemic.

Between new constraints & new expectations... A luxury that is reinvented, more aspirational than ever before. Ipsos unveils the results of its annual barometer of luxury consumption trends, the World Luxury Tracking (WLT) study.

Reassessing the eight motivators of purchase in the context of COVID-19.