{"id":157638,"date":"2021-10-16T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T05:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyupdate.com.au\/?p=157638"},"modified":"2021-10-14T00:47:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T13:47:44","slug":"how-our-retail-behavior-changed-during-covid-initial-and-lasting-changes-to-our-shopping-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyupdate.com.au\/how-our-retail-behavior-changed-during-covid-initial-and-lasting-changes-to-our-shopping-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"How our retail behavior changed during COVID: Initial and lasting changes to our shopping patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"

How has our retail behaviour changed by Covid and the lockdowns?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this article I'll look back to the start of the pandemic when the first retail data came out in May 2020 to see what impact that the pandemic might have had from February to March and see how lockdowns actually change Australians' behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And when I first looked at the data I had a bit of a chuckle simply because usually between one month to the next you have retail data shifts by 'zero-point-something' percentage points, so you don't see very high shifts month-to-month.<\/p>\n

But then we saw a 31% increase in liquor sales, and I figured out, 'Wow, that is just Australians dealing with the pandemic in the most Australian way!'<\/em><\/p>\n

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How our retail behavior changed during COVID: Initial and lasting changes to our shopping patterns<\/div><\/div>
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