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We provide an outlook for US retail and service spending in the near term, analyzing Coresight Research’s proprietary survey data to understand how consumers will change their spending behaviors once they have received a Covid-19 vaccine.

We highlight five key ways in which widespread vaccinations will impact spending through the remainder of 2021, with a focus on the implications for US retail. Exploring the five components of the next spending revolution, we include discussion of the following:

• Categories in which consumers plan to spend more or less once vaccinated—compared to pre-pandemic and compared to the 2020 pandemic period
• Differences in consumer spending plans by income, age and region

To read more about US consumers’ behaviors and expectations, with a focus on the implications for US retail, see Coresight Research’s US Consumer Tracker, which presents our weekly survey findings. Our US Consumer Tracker Extra monthly series offers additional insight, including long-term consumer trends and a detailed analysis of where current trends will lead in the coming months. Click here to read our full collection of reports.

Premium subscribers can also access data from our weekly surveys in our US Consumer Tracker Databank.

Contents (Click to navigate)

What’s the Story?

Why It Matters

The Next Spending Revolution in the US: In Detail

What We Think