Younes Hannah, Noland Robert B, Zhang Wenwen
Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick New Jersey USA.
Reg Sci Policy Prac. 2022 Jun 1. doi: 10.1111/rsp3.12542.
The COVID-19 pandemic altered daily activities. Many consumers reverted to online grocery shopping and home delivery. We analyze factors associated with the decision to grocery shop online and whether this will persist post-COVID using data collected via a representative online Qualtrics panel in the State of New Jersey ( = 1,419). Around half of respondents either decreased in-person shopping, increased online shopping, or pursued a combination of both. We used factor analysis to decompose attitudes towards the pandemic, finding that attitudinal responses broke down into 'fearful', 'believers', and 'deniers'. Binomial regressions were used to analyze patterns of frequency of grocery shopping during the pandemic and changes in behavior during the pandemic. Results suggest that age, gender, ethnicity, educational attainment, having children at home, and attitudes towards COVID-19 are likely to influence frequency of online and in-person grocery shopping. Specifically, being 50 years or older is negatively associated with online grocery shopping. Those who deny COVID-19 were less likely to decrease in-person grocery shopping. People who had children at home, who had advanced degrees, or who were of Hispanic origin were more likely to increase online shopping and decrease in-person shopping during the pandemic. While our results suggest that in-person grocery shopping will return to prepandemic levels, we found that respondents report some increased persistence in online grocery shopping post-COVID.
新冠疫情改变了日常活动。许多消费者转而选择网上杂货店购物和送货上门服务。我们使用通过新泽西州具有代表性的在线Qualtrics面板收集的数据（(n = 1419)），分析了与网上杂货店购物决策相关的因素，以及这种情况在新冠疫情后是否会持续。大约一半的受访者要么减少了线下购物，增加了网上购物，要么两者兼而有之。我们使用因子分析来分解对疫情的态度，发现态度反应可分为“恐惧者”“相信者”和“否认者”。二项式回归用于分析疫情期间杂货店购物频率的模式以及疫情期间行为的变化。结果表明，年龄、性别、种族、教育程度、家中有孩子以及对新冠疫情的态度可能会影响网上和线下杂货店购物的频率。具体而言，50岁及以上的人群与网上杂货店购物呈负相关。否认新冠疫情的人减少线下杂货店购物的可能性较小。家中有孩子、拥有高等学位或西班牙裔的人在疫情期间更有可能增加网上购物并减少线下购物。虽然我们的结果表明线下杂货店购物将恢复到疫情前的水平，但我们发现受访者表示新冠疫情后网上杂货店购物会有一定程度的持续增加。
