Consumption

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.

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

It may be natural to think premium brands do badly during a downturn, but premium brands viewed as affordable indulgences can do better in a recession.

Shared values shape individual behaviour, and this is even more evident during the coronavirus pandemic.

Around the globe, people are more likely to think that their access to healthy and quality food will increase in the future, but that it will come at a price, according to a new Global Advisor survey from Ipsos. Those surveyed are more than twice as likely to say that the costs of food will get worse in the future than believe it will improve.