Food Shopping

Teresa Olczyk, Qingren Wang, Edward A. Evans, Margie Pikarsky, andTeresa Olczyk

This publication promotes local vegetable consumption by pointing out some of the advantages, benefits, and business opportunities associated with local vegetable production and consumption. The targeted audiences of this article are food crop producers, consumers, business managers, extension agents and specialists, and government policy makers. Minor revision of the UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences Department, written by Qingren Wang, Edward A. Evans, Margie Pikarsky, and Teresa Olczyk; 5 pp.

Lijun Angelia Chen andLisa House

This study provides an overview of US food shoppers in 2017 and serves as a benchmark for policymakers and marketers of consumer food and beverage products for analyzing consumer trends in the future. A nationwide sample of 5,993 adults, all primary food shoppers in the United States, completed a survey in 2017 to learn about food-related perspectives and trends. Consumers differ in food shopping outlets, grocery spending, response to food price increases, food-related attitudes, food and beverage consumption patterns, and nutritional perceptions.

Suraj Gurung, Lijun Angelia Chen, Sungeun Yoon, andLisa House

To gain insights into US consumers’ food-related perspectives, we examined their food and beverage preferences and consumption patterns in parallel with those identified in 2017. Using a nationwide sample of 6,412 primary food shoppers in 2018, we assessed consumer perspectives regarding food shopping outlets, responses to food price increases, grocery expenditures, food-related attitudes, food and beverage consumption patterns, and nutritional perceptions. Last, we compared consumer trends in 2018 with those in 2017 to identify any changes over time.