Pre-pandemic changes in the workforce and an aging population contributed to a home-centric lifestyle
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 36th edition of Eating Patterns in America.