The second wave nationwide survey across Germany showed the changes in consumer shopping and eating behaviour as the coronavirus pandemic progressed Photo: University of Göttingen
The second wave nationwide survey across Germany showed the changes in consumer shopping and eating behaviour as the coronavirus pandemic progressed Photo: University of Göttingen Göttingen University research team investigates behaviour and attitudes of consumers in Germany during the different phases of the coronavirus pandemic Researchers at the University of Göttingen have been conducting a nationwide consumer survey since mid-April to find out how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting shopping, eating and cooking behaviour. In mid-June, at a time of low infection rates and increasing relaxation of pandemic-related restrictions in Germany, the same consumers were surveyed again. A comparison of the data shows partly a return to behaviour patterns back to the levels before the pandemic. People cooked less at home, but started to go shopping more frequently again. Other aspects remained stable, such as the increased importance of sustainability in food choices and the increased preference for regional agricultural produce. The results have been published in a discussion paper at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the University of Göttingen. The research is being carried out as a -panel study- which means that only those who had already taken part in the first survey in April 2020 were invited to the second survey in June.
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