By Beth Braverman | September 09, 2021 | Consumer Reports<\/a> | Smarter Shopper <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re in the mood to spend, you\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn the first half of 2021, we saw a return of optimism and spending,\u201d says Tamara Charm, who works for the global management consulting firm McKinsey as an agile consumer insights leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And yet the way we\u2019re buying reflects the many long-term changes brought on by the pandemic. E-commerce sales (long on the upswing) jumped 32 percent in 2020, more than double the growth rate in 2019, according to the market research firm Mintel. Even as shoppers venture back into walk-in stores now that vaccines have eased restrictions, online sales remain strong. The experience of having almost everything delivered to one\u2019s door has probably changed some shopping habits for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here for the full story<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n While shortages, price spikes, and delays can be frustrating, there are easy ways to find what you need for the right price By Beth Braverman | September 09, 2021 | Consumer Reports | Smarter Shopper If you\u2019re in the mood to spend, you\u2019re not alone. \u201cIn the first half of 2021, we saw a return […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[4,71,62,1842,1841],"class_list":["post-11313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insurance","category-shield-blog","tag-home-insurance","tag-michigan","tag-shield-insurance-agency","tag-shop-online","tag-smarter-shopper"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13472,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions\/13472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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