#Consumer Behavior

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• 🇺🇸 From Boston to Denver, US drivers cut back as Iran war pushes fuel costs higher — 11/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Energy Economics, #Geopolitical Risk
• 🇺🇸 Mortgage borrowers seek shorter-term deals as market volatility saps confidence — 11/04/2026 [USA]

  Flexibility is the watchword among UK borrowers amid signs of slowing activity in the housing market

  Related: #Mortgage Market, #Economic Uncertainty
• 🇺🇸 Have You Used A.I. Chatbots for Nutrition Advice? — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Whether you’re looking to manage a health condition, lose weight or simply eat better, we want to hear from you.

  Related: #Technology, #Health & Wellness, #Media & Journalism
• 🇺🇸 Is a Big Album Dropping? You Might Want to Watch the Road. — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  A study found that traffic fatalities increased in the United States by nearly 15 percent on the same days as the biggest album releases.

  Related: #Public Safety, #Academic Research
• 🇺🇸 Consumer sentiment sinks to record low — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Consumer sentiment sank to a record low in April as weeks of U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran have impacted oil prices globally, a new University of Michigan survey found. Consumer confidence has dropped...

  Related: #Economy, #Geopolitics
• 🇺🇸 How Airlines Turned First-Class Seats From Freebies to a Profit Engine — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Airlines used to give away most of their nicest seats, but they have increasingly found ways to persuade people to pay a lot for them.

  Related: #Aviation Industry, #Premiumization
• 🇺🇸 As millions lose weight on GLP-1s, they're starting to turn to retailers to refresh their wardrobes — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Apparel retailers could see an up to $13 billion annual boost in spending because of GLP-1 drugs, according to an estimate by equity research firm Bernstein.

  Related: #Retail Economics, #Healthcare Impact
• 🇺🇸 Japan consumer confidence drops sharply in March as Middle East conflict weighs — 09/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Economy, #Geopolitics
• 🇺🇸 Constellation Brands posts smaller‑than‑expected quarterly sales drop on steady Mexican beer demand — 08/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Corporate Earnings, #Beverage Industry
• 🇺🇸 Which retailers win and lose from high gas prices? Deutsche Bank sorts it out — 29/03/2026 [USA]

  Companies indexed to higher-income customers are more likely to weather higher gas prices, the firm found.

  Related: #Retail Economics, #Market Analysis
• 🇺🇸 Iran war is having negative effects on both restaurant demand and supply, analyst — 29/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Geopolitical Impact, #Economic Pressure, #Supply Chain Disruption
• 🇺🇸 Not just buying 'things': Why China's emotional economy is on the rise — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Amid a prolonged economic slowdown, one segment of the world's second-largest economy is growing quicker than the rest: China's so-called emotional economy.

  Related: #Mental Health
• 🇺🇸 The price of menstrual products is skyrocketing from inflation, tariffs — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  With rising inflation and changing tariff policies, menstrual products have seen a drastic rise in price over the past few years.

  Related: #Economic Impact, #Policy Effects, #Product Innovation
• 🇺🇸 How rising fuel prices impact consumers shopping in stores or online — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Rising fuel prices can impact consumers beyond the gas pump. Oil prices have surged more than 40% since the Iran war effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz. The price hike can impact everything fr...

  Related: #Economic Impact
• 🇬🇧 High charges, poor service: NCP hits the skids as drivers change habits — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Britons are likely to have little loyalty to the car park operator as it goes into administration with a £305m debt burden</p><p>Nearly a century old and once host to London fashion week, the <a hr...

  Related: #Urban Mobility
• 🇬🇧 How Google Maps is shaping where we eat – video — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Josh Toussaint-Strauss discovers that great restaurants are disappearing on Google Maps, despite having lots of reviews and high ratings, so he sets out to get to the bottom of it and finds out tha...

  Related: #Technology Impact
• 🇬🇧 Are fuel price increases making you cut back? We would like to hear from you — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Perhaps you are limiting car journeys or reducing the amount of cooking you do. Tell us</p><p>The conflict in the Middle East has disrupted global shipping routes and caused a <a href="https://www....

  Related: #Economic Impact
• 🇺🇸 How will the oil disruption matter for consumer spending? — 15/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Energy Economics
• 🇺🇸 Ulta Beauty wary of ’global conflicts’ pressure on consumer as profit target lags Street — 12/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Corporate Earnings
• 🇺🇸 Smaller portions are a big restaurant trend as customers watch their budgets and waistlines — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  The biggest new restaurant trend is small

  Related: #Dining Trends
• 🇺🇸 Only Half of Americans Went to a Movie Theater in 2025, According to Study — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  With the Academy Awards approaching to celebrate the year’s best films, a new survey offered a reality check about moviegoing: Just over half of Americans say they set foot in a movie theater over the...

  Related: #Entertainment Trends
• 🇺🇸 Lindt says weight-loss drugs users are eating more chocolate, not less — 10/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Health Trends
• 🇬🇧 ‘Vicious cycle’: panic buying is biggest risk to Australia’s petrol supplies, experts say — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Government and motoring groups say there is no shortage of fuel supplies but stockpiling has left country service stations running dry, as Iran war sparks oil price fears</p><ul><li><p><a href="htt...

  Related: #Fuel Security
• 🇺🇸 Sony appears to be testing dynamic pricing on PlayStation games — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  A site called PSprices has been tracking prices on Sony's digital game store and noticed something unusual: some games were being offered at different prices to different users. What's more, those off...

  Related: #Gaming, #Technology, #Pricing Strategy
• 🇬🇧 From luxury ‘dupes’ to literary doubles: why doppelgangers are everywhere right now — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>AI ‘twins’, Mar-a-Lago lookalikes, Melania impersonator conspiracies … doubles proliferate in today’s culture – and nowhere more so than in a series of unsettling new novels that draw on a rich got...

  Related: #Cultural Trends
• 🇺🇸 AMC Theatres Attendance Drops 10%, Quarterly Revenues Fall — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  “Avatar: Fire & Ash,” “Wicked: For Good” and “Zootopia 2” may have dominated the holiday box office, but they weren’t enough to lift AMC Theatres’ quarterly earnings. The world’s largest exhibitor rep...

  Related: #Film Industry, #Business Performance
• 🇬🇧 How budget fast fashion is taking small-town India by storm — 23/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  More Indians in small towns are now shopping for affordable brands instead of unlabelled goods in the bazaars.

  Related: #Retail Transformation, #Economic Growth, #Sustainability Concerns
• 🇬🇧 Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games — 21/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  As top games such as GTA 6 are speculated to cost $100 (£74), some developers are deliberately pricing lower.

  Related: #Game Pricing, #Market Trends
• 🇬🇧 New Year's sport supplement buying adds to January retail sales surge — 20/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Continuing strong sales from online jewellers after a recent spike in gold prices also helped drive the increase.

  Related: #Retail Sales, #Economic Indicators
• 🇺🇸 Priceline, Carvana, DoorDash and more set to report earnings Wednesday — 17/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Corporate Earnings, #Market Performance