More and more mall visitors feel safer: shopping center body

More than a month has passed since the reopening of shopping facilities after they were all shut down due to the coronavirus lockdown. As many as 61 percent of respondents to a survey conducted by the Polish Council of Shopping Centers (PRCH) and the Inquiry research agency said they visited shopping centers during the first week of June. More than three-quarters (79 percent) of all the visitors shopped without fear for their health.

PRCH informed that the nationwide survey has been planned in eight weekly parts and each time it would be conducted on a sample of 500 people. The study allows analyzing current changes in the behavior of customers in malls in areas such as purchasing decisions, opinions about visits to shopping centers or concerns related to them.

According to the fourth part of the study entitled “Return of Poles to shopping after the epidemic: Tracking Poles’ attitudes” and carried out on June 1-5, over half of the respondents (52 percent) declared that they went to malls for specific products. While 53 percent limited their expenses only to the most necessary things, every fifth respondent went to a mall to see what was happening in the city and every third in search of interesting promotions.

Warsaw-based PRCH is a non-profit association of over 240 companies operating in the real estate, trade and service industries.

(ISBnews)