A Home-Centric Lifestyle for US Consumers to Continue Long-term
According to a new report, the majority of meals will continue to be eaten at home for the foreseeable future
Most analyses during the pandemic have focused on discerning its impact on consumer behavior and forecasting how this might change going forward. However, before the pandemic structural changes in the workforce and the aging population already contributed to a home-centric lifestyle, and COVID accelerated it, reports The NPD Group. These long-term trends will continue to influence consumer eating patterns and how they use their homes well into the future, according to NPD's recently released 36th edition of Eating Patterns in America.
"Our life stage and workplace behavior has a lot to do with how, where, and when we consume foods and beverages, and what we buy to help us prepare our meals," says David Portalatin, NPD food industry advisor and author of Eating Patterns in America. "These factors transcend the crisis of the moment or boom time economy that might replace it and will continue to influence behaviors over the long-term."