It's important to note that this is just one study. It's tough to speculate when shopping will be revived, as uncertainty over the reopening of brick-and-mortars will continue on a state-by-state basis. In the past week, retail stores in Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Mississippi, Montana and South Carolina reopened (with restrictions), but the majority of states are still waiting for shelter-in-place measures to be lifted, and that will take time.
Local businesses in particular have been feeling the effects of the pandemic. More than a third of local marketers said they were losing customers as a result of it, according to March 2020 data from BrightLocal. And many expected those impacts to continue as more consumers avoid shopping in physical stores.
But there may be a silver lining for retailers once quarantines end. Some 16.7% of US adults said they would shop more often at physical stores after the coronavirus pandemic is resolved, per March 31 data from Business Insider Intelligence.