COVID-19 reports

Access our in-depth Coronavirus (COVID-19) insight reports. The insights in this section cover the whole food and grocery supply chain from manufacturing and logistics to retailing and the shopper perspective.

Reports

Presentations

06/04/2020
Understand current and planned stockpiling, overall and at a category level, of food and groceries as a result of Coronavirus. Categories include tins and packaged foods, toilet paper, cereals, medicines, frozen food, dairy, petfood, household products, hot drinks, fresh meat and fish, alcohol, hand sanitiser and hand gels, sweet and savoury snacks, soft drinks, fresh produce, bakery, table sauces and cooking sauces, chilled products, jams and spreads, health and beauty products, baby products.
06/04/2020
Diageo, maker of Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff, has pledged to help create over 8m bottles of hand sanitiser.
06/04/2020
Students from the Polytechnic of Milan have created an app that indicates in real time the length of queues at food stores.
06/04/2020
The categories and retailers that can expect to see the most additional demand over the next few weeks, and those that may see a reprieve.
06/04/2020
Aldi Suisse has added electronic crowd monitoring systems at 110 of its busiest stores.
06/04/2020
Burger King is using its Twitter channels to encourage its customers to stay at home, and while they are there, to create their own Burger King meal.
06/04/2020
We share how retailers, from across the globe, are communicating to online shoppers in the evolving Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
06/04/2020
We share how UK online retailers are using online content, operations and supply chain to help colleagues and shoppers.
03/04/2020
Find out more about the latest data for IGD’s Shopper Confidence Index and how to use it for future planning
03/04/2020
From free mental health support to shifting focus to social commerce, we share five different ways drugstore operators are serving shoppers during the pandemic.