Percentage of Americans who have canceled their summer travel plans for this year, leading to more distress for the travel industry, according to a survey by ValuePenguin.com: 48
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Percentage who also said they would wait a full year before traveling again: 17
Source: ValuePenguin.com.
Percentage of Americans who say they have enjoyed staying in pajamas and/or stretchy pants all day during the shut down, according to an Ipsos North America Omnibus survey: 33
Percentage who enjoyed just the sense of the world slowing down: 32
Percentage who enjoyed exercising/meditating/improving health: 19
Source: Ipsos Reid Omnibus Services.
Estimated number of Americans who are less than three months away from running out of money, according to a survey by Wallethub: 160 million
Estimated percentage of respondents who don't think people's unemployment income should be more than their previous income: 56
Percentage more likely that millennials are than baby boomers to think that stimulus checks should only be given to people experiencing income loss: 25
Source: WalletHub.
Although a majority of consumers believe a return to "normal" life is 17 weeks away, percentage who are predicting it's anywhere from five months to two years, according to findings from a Fleishman-Hillard consumer study conducted in the United States, China, Germany, Italy, South Korea and United Kingdom: 20
Percentage who report the pandemic has changed the products and services they once thought were important, a phenomenon even more widespread in China (86%) and Italy (73%): 68
Source: Fleishman-Hillard.
Percentage of Americans who don't have enough money saved to cover COVID-19 medical costs, according to a Healthinsurance.com survey: 52
Percentage who would think twice about seeking medical care right now because of cost: 46
Source: Healthinsurance.com.
Percentage of shoppers who said it's extremely or very likely that their grocery habits will return to normal once the pandemic is over, according to COVID-19 grocery shopper research from Acosta: 68
Percentage of shoppers who said it's extremely or very likely that they will eat at home more than they used to for a while: 56
Source: Acosta.
Percentage of Americans who perceive cycling as a safer mode of transportation vs. public transportation while social distancing, according to a Trek Bicycle survey: 85
If Americans must travel within five miles during COVID-19, percentage who included biking in their top three primary modes of transportation: 90
Percentage of Americans who are riding bikes to replace public transportation: 14
Source: Trek Bicycle Corp.
Approximate number of Americans who filed new claims for jobless benefits last week -- meaning the total number of new claims has topped 30 million over six weeks, according to research by MarketWatch: 3.8 million
Rank of new unemployment claims on the list of the most important indicators of the economic destruction caused by the coronavirus pandemic: 1
Source: MarketWatch.
Percentage of consumers who are interested in using gift cards and e-gifts for charity or kindness during this crisis, such as contributing to a gift card for a person or family in need, according to research by Blackhawk: 88
Source: Blackhawk Network.
Percentage of employees who feel they are less productive working from home than when they worked from the office, according to a study by VitalSmarts: 33
Ranks of not connecting with colleagues, available technology and too many distractions on the list of challenges that contribute to employees feeling less productive: 1, 2, 3
Source: VitalSmarts.
Idle Thought
"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion." -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher
(Readers can contact John MacIntyre at johnmacintyre@bwr.eastlink.ca.)