U.S. online grocery sales will grow 40 percent in 2020, according to Coresight Research’s U.S. Online Grocery Survey 2020, reports Supermarket News. Fifty-two percent of consumers polled had bought groceries online in the past 12 months, the first time that more than half of respondents had done so.
“The coronavirus outbreak has prompted shoppers to buy food and essentials online in greater numbers and more frequently. By the time of our survey in mid-March, the outbreak had already encouraged just under half of online grocery shoppers to buy more groceries online or driven them to start buying online,” Deborah Weinswig, founder and CEO of Coresight, said in the study. “This year’s survey results saw a big increase in expectations to buy groceries online in the coming 12 months, and we suspect much of that is due to the impact of the coronavirus.” Full Story
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