The Impact of Mobility on Shopping Preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Evidence from the Slovak Republic

The COVID-19 global pandemic has affected normal human behaviour in day-to-day activities. As a result of various restrictions, people have significantly changed their shopping and mobility to limit the spread of the pandemic. This article aims to determine the association between consumers’ shoppin...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Mathematics (Basel) 2022-05, Vol.10 (9), p.1394
Main Authors: Harantová, Veronika, Kalašová, Alica, Skřivánek Kubíková, Simona, Mazanec, Jaroslav, Jordová, Radomíra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Commuting
Consumer behavior
Consumers
Coronaviruses
correspondence analysis
COVID-19
Disease transmission
Electronic commerce
Epidemics
Fear & phobias
Hypotheses
mobility
pandemic
Pandemics
Preferences
Shopping
shopping preferences
Supermarkets
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The COVID-19 global pandemic has affected normal human behaviour in day-to-day activities. As a result of various restrictions, people have significantly changed their shopping and mobility to limit the spread of the pandemic. This article aims to determine the association between consumers’ shopping preferences and the frequency of selected daily activities during and before the COVID-19 pandemic using correspondence analysis. The total sample consists of 407 respondents from Slovakia. The data are obtained from an online questionnaire divided into several sections such as socio-demographic factors, shopping preferences, and frequency of selected activities per week. The results show that there is an association between consumers’ preference for shopping in supermarkets and the frequency of family visits per week during the pandemic, among other factors. These findings follow up on previous studies on the consequences of changing mobility as a result of the global crisis.
ISSN:2227-7390
2227-7390
DOI:10.3390/math10091394