Consumers have encountered problems with supply shortages and out-of-stock items while online grocery shopping during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States in 2020. Around 43 percent of survey respondents reported experiencing out-of-stock paper products.
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Online grocery items consumers found to be out of stock during the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States in 2020*
*Initial U.S. Grocery Shoppers Trend online survey among n=2000+ fielded February 7-27, 2020.
Subsequent COVID-19 tracker survey among n=1,000+ fielded March 21-26, 2020.
Other waves of the COVID-19 tracker survey among n=1000+ fielded:
March 28 - April 2, 2020
April 4 - 9, 2020
April 15-25, 2020.
The source did not specify in which survey period the question was asked.
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FMI. (May 7, 2020). Online grocery items consumers found to be out of stock during the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States in 2020* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 10, 2024, from https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/1127446/challenges-of-online-grocery-shopping-out-of-stock-items-us/
FMI. "Online grocery items consumers found to be out of stock during the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States in 2020*." Chart. May 7, 2020. Statista. Accessed November 10, 2024. https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/1127446/challenges-of-online-grocery-shopping-out-of-stock-items-us/
FMI. (2020). Online grocery items consumers found to be out of stock during the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States in 2020*. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 10, 2024. https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/1127446/challenges-of-online-grocery-shopping-out-of-stock-items-us/
FMI. "Online Grocery Items Consumers Found to Be out of Stock during The Covid-19 Outbreak in The United States in 2020*." Statista, Statista Inc., 7 May 2020, https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/1127446/challenges-of-online-grocery-shopping-out-of-stock-items-us/
FMI, Online grocery items consumers found to be out of stock during the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States in 2020* Statista, https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/1127446/challenges-of-online-grocery-shopping-out-of-stock-items-us/ (last visited November 10, 2024)
Online grocery items consumers found to be out of stock during the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States in 2020* [Graph], FMI, May 7, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/1127446/challenges-of-online-grocery-shopping-out-of-stock-items-us/
