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him.com 9th April 2020

www.himshopper.com April 2020 Week three of Channel Pulse – our new weekly measure of consumer and shopper behaviour across all UK food and drink channels - has landed, allowing us to explore how shopper and consumer trends have evolved since lockdown started. Here are some of the headlines: Consumers are snacking more Snacking occasions are growing their share of meals, from 16.7% to 17.1% this week, whilst lunch declines, as consumers continue to adjust to new routines. The in-store grocery channel saw its share of the snack day-part increase, suggesting shoppers are visiting stores to satisfy their snacking needs. Despite an increase in share of snacking, grocery in-store saw its share of lunch and dinner decline compared with the previous week. In contrast, out-of-home delivery has increased its share at lunch and dinner as consumers turn to foodservice operators as a “treat”. This is the number one reason for ordering foodservice delivery ...

www.himshopper.com 16th April 2020 The UK has been in lockdown for nearly four weeks now. We have seen extraordinary shake ups to our daily routines; a whopping 62% are working from home and regular leisure activities are completely off the table. Today we want to focus on one particular “shake-up” and explore how our snacking habits have changed as a result of being confined to our homes with full fridges and crowded cupboards. Nearly half of UK consumers either agree or strongly agree that they have snacked more in the past few weeks, with over-indexes amongst younger and more affluent consumers. “The why” is relatively easy to understand: In-home snacking is a cheap treat for consumers, with individual units within take-home multipacks working out less expensive With stockpiled cupboards, snacks are more accessible in the home, meaning there’s no need to venture out to satisfy a craving Food offers moments of pleasure during days at home ...

www.cga.co.uk Britain’s managed pub, restaurant and bar sector saw collective like-for-like sales drop 57.6% in March as the country moved into lockdown, latest data from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker show. All parts of the market were hit hard, as the slowdown in sales, which started in February, continued during the first half of the month before the total shut down on March 20. Managed pub operators reported a 57.8% fall in like-for-like trading compared to March 2019, with restaurant groups down 56.2% and bar chains down 60.0%. London trading was down 60.4%, with outside the M25 down 56.8%. “The drop in sales that began in February and escalated in the next month, means that even by the end of March, the eating and drinking out sector had fallen into year on year decline, down 4.1% on the previous 12 months, with London down 3.7%,” said Karl Chessell , director of CGA , the business insight consultancy that produces the Tracker, in partnership with The Coffer Grou...

www.essentialretail.com People operating the tills in our supermarkets have replaced celebrities and footballers as society’s heroes as a result of the coronavirus crisis upending the hierarchies that have grown up over recent years, according to retail futurist Howard Saunders . “The top of the list had been celebrities and footballers but now they are at the bottom. One of those who’ve moved to the top are the supermarkets. We thought they had gotten greedy and global with their shipping in of foods but now we’re thanking them. The people on the tills are now more important than celebrities,” he suggests. Such a shift is part of what he says is a socio-economic reboot that many people have actually been yearning for as they have been supportive of efforts towards greater sustainability – with criticism of unnecessary levels of flying around the world – and movements like Extinction Rebellion. “The virus has been seismic, ...

www.nielsen.com Europeans are split over just how long the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will continue to have an impact on Europe. Consumers in Greece, Russia, France and Spain are more optimistic that things will rebalance in less than three months, while consumers in Germany, the Netherlands, U.K., Turkey and Ireland aren’t so sure. These findings come from a new Nielsen survey of consumers from 29 countries across Europe who were asked how long they think it will last. 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. COVID-19 is changing the way people go about their day-to-day lives, but how many of these changed behaviours are here to stay? For instance, the majority of consumers in Poland, Italy, France and Ireland are reconsidering the necessity and frequency of visiting su...

Life in Lockdown - 2weeks https://info.cga.co.uk/hubfs/CGA%20Covid-19%20Survey%202%20Changing%20consumer%20behaviour%20in%20lockdown.pdf