Coronavirus triggers consumers' guilty pleasures

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Research summary
    Publication Date:
    2020-03-16
    URL:
    https://www.hpj.com/ag_news/coronavirus-triggers-consumers-guilty-pleasures/article_e2393ae8-7b63-11ea-8ada-af1585d2463c.html
    Published:
    USA: Center for Food Integrity, Gladstone, Missouri.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11433
    Subject Term:
    attitudes, buying behavior, consumers, food, risk management, health, diseases, food selection, food decisions, food preferences, food shortages, food shopping, and coronavirus
    Notes:
    3 pages., Online from publisher., Report from the Consumer Trust Insights Council indicates that beyond shoppers' emphasis on supplies of canned and frozen supplies of food during this global disease outbreak, "there's something else folks are buying during their supply runs - guilty pleasures." Those take the form of treats like chocolate, cookies and beverages, "...little indulgences to bring them joy during anxious times."

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