While seven in 10 Americans say they expect to make changes to Fourth of July plans this year, according to Frito-Lay, if Memorial Day is any indication (salty snacks were up 9% year over year, and early June data shows salty snacks up by 5%), salty snacks sales are expected to be on par with years…

Thirty-one percent of Americans plan to hit the road this summer, down 44% from last year, according to GasBuddy’s 2020 Summer Travel Study. However, consumers have not completely ruled out fitting in a road trip this summer just yet. While 18% definitively said there will be no road trips, 51% still have not made a…

  WASHINGTON — Cannabis industry analyst New Frontier Data projects that sales of infused cannabis products will approach $3 billion in 2020, according to its study, “Cannabis-Infused Products: U.S. Consumer Experience and Demand, Volume 1.” The report analyzes the performance, consumers and manufacturing processes of the infused products market, as well as the ways cannabis…

Frito-Lay issued the latest edition of its U.S. Snack Index, finding snacks remain essential to summer, but with consumers increasingly buying through new channels and eating snacks differently than ever before. The majority of Americans (86%) anticipate their summers will be different compared to last year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. From minimal travel and…

GasBuddy released a new report that analyzes more than 10 million consumer visits and 2 million ratings and reviews between January and April, revealing the top-performing brands and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumer sentiment and behavior. “Convenience retailers are essential businesses during times of crisis, but COVID-19 is bringing consumers to the stores…

A new survey commissioned by crowdsourced shopping platform Slickdeals of 2,000 Americans found that the COVID-19 pandemic has consumers shopping more impulsively than prior to the pandemic, with impulse spending up by 18%. In January, the average American was found to spend $155.03 monthly on impulse buys. In a new poll in April, during the pandemic,…

Service Management Group (SMG) research has identified three trends in grocery shopper behavior and a few tips to help stores remain agile. Trend 1: Grocery pick-up orders have increased since the pandemic. In recent years, the evolution of e-commerce has led brands to invest in services that make the shopping experience easier for customers. The…

GasBuddy released its first quarterly report examining consumer fuel buying trends, finding that March 2020 fuel demand in gallons purchased dropped 20% compared to March 2019 due to stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report examines millions of fuel transactions from Pay with GasBuddy, the first-of-its-kind fuel savings program that gives drivers a discount…

New data from NCSolutions (NCS) shows average household grocery spending has decreased since the COVID-19 peak — a stage NCS calls ‘Extreme Buying’ — but remains 23% higher than before COVID-19. This shift indicates consumers have entered a new purchasing stage, which NCS refers to as ‘Home-Confined Buying.’ In this new stage, which began on March…

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the U.S., Pittsburgh, Pa.-based CivicScience, which provides software and services, has recorded data on how people are getting news and information on COVID-19 and how that impacts their behavior. Here’s what CivicScience is seeing: There’s basically only one thing that is more predictive of whether someone is concerned about COVID-19…