Covid-19, how the pandemic has changed the spending and eating habits of consumers in Europe 69% 37% 87%

The health emergency forced everyone to review their habits. The focus is on neighborhood shops for food shopping that is purchased in the morning to be consumed in the evening. It has become difficult to plan, we think about the immediate. Habits have also changed with regard to the hours of daily shopping. Before, we went more often in the evening, further away, according to statistics and surveys.

Today we do the opposite: shopping is done more often in the morning, day by day and in the store closest to home. We went back to the local shops, to the shopping done in the neighborhood, all the big chains have equipped themselves and have opened new “smaller” points close to home, also because there were many restrictions on movement.

The choice of products has also been changed. We think in the short term, in the morning for the evening and no longer for the weekly shopping. We pay more attention to quality than quantity, some-The survey, carried out with the aim of measuring changes in food-related behavior following lockdowns and the various restrictive measures adopted around Europe, was conducted in September 2020 by EIT Food in collaboration with a consortium of universities, and involved 5,000 consumers from 10 countries: Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom, Romania, Spain and Sweden.

Changes in consumer habits have been observed in all countries, and concern the way in which shop-have felt they had more time than usual times even thinking of a few more concessions. A choice that reflects not only the quality but also the economy.