U.S. Shoppers Shift Shopping Strategies to Brace for Recessionary Effects
Shoppers have been primarily driven to buy based on health and safety concerns throughout the pandemic, but a second layer of consumption behavior has been emerging from those experiencing financial restraint.
Unemployment is at the Heart of Long-Term Consumer Change
Two important narratives have been necessarily conflated as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has made its way around the world this year: the devastating impact of the deadly disease on the lives of millions and their loved ones and the almost immediate effect on the global economy.
Understanding Consumer Sentiment Can Help Companies Adjust as the U.S. Begins to Re-Open
As businesses across the U.S. begin to re-open, companies need to understand evolving consumer sentiment before assuming that open-for-business means business as usual.
Scenarios Beyond COVID-19: Rebound, Reboot, Reinvent
Nielsen has identified three distinct time horizons for global market regeneration beyond the COVID-19 global health emergency and attached likely scenarios to each. The three-tiered framework identifies the conditions for businesses to rebound, reboot or reinvent as they confront expected...
Real-Time ‘Recessionary’ Response Holds Key to COVID-19 Fallout
With the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 emergency being felt around the globe, there is a natural tendency to make comparisons to the Great Recession. Some habits from that period will be repeated, but to make side-by-side comparisons would be overly simplistic.
It’s Time for Facts, Not Fear: Asian Americans are Doing Their Part
We’ve seen many headlines about Asian Americans falling victim to hate and harassment amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But we are not a community that will sit quietly and turn a blind a eye. We are one with a voice to be heard.
While Still in Lockdown, Many Europeans Expect the Impact of COVID-19 to Last Another Year
The majority of Europeans believe the impact of COVID-19 is here to stay for the next 12 months, signalling that some of the major changes we’ve seen in the consumer and retail environment will stick around as well.
The Million Dollar Fine
If you’re a woman in North America, the OECD estimates that you make $10,000 less than your male counterparts each year, and you’re charged between $1,300 and $2,135 more for products and services. It’s a gender fine that adds up to about half a million dollars over your lifetime—and...
The Database: Can Corporate Citizenship Be Good for Communities and the Bottom Line?
This episode explores how brands are incorporating corporate social responsibility into their daily business practices, how they’re engaging their employees to amplify their impact and retain talent, and how social good can be good for communities and the bottom line.
The Database: The Business of Sustainability
By 2021, we expect sustainably minded shoppers in the U.S. to spend up to $150 billion on sustainable consumer packaged goods. But while we’ve been tracking sustainable intentions and spending trends for some time, we wanted to explore the broader impact of this behavior – what it means for...