The Pulse of the Consumer: Food and Beverage Survey 2026

US Shoppers’ Purchase Habits, Shopping Behavior, and Advertising Perceptions

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About This Report
Our inaugural Pulse of the Consumer: Food and Beverage survey tracks shopper behavior across food and beverage categories.

Our inaugural Pulse of the Consumer: Food and Beverage survey explores how US shoppers discover, research, and buy food and beverage products. The data maps behaviors along the consumer’s path to purchase and captures where food and beverage purchases are taking place.

This deck can help you and your customers understand:

  • Our sales forecast for food and beverage, by category and channel
  • Purchase habits across different product categories within food and beverage
  • How shoppers discover and research new food and beverage products
  • How shoppers feel about different types of food and beverage ads

authors

Blake Droesch

Contributors

Sky Canaves
Principal Analyst
Brian Lau
Senior Forecasting Analyst
Na Li
Director, Primary Research
Cindy Liu
Senior Forecasting Analyst
Wendy Malloy
Director, Reports Editor
Jennifer Pearson
VP, Research
Naomi Rebuelta
Copy Editor
Matt Torpey
Senior Data Visualization Editor
Jherr Daven Velasco
Data Visualization Editor
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