The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on the quality of food security on the polish food market

Abstract

A key event in the last two years of the global economy has been the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many organisations such as manufacturing and service companies, shops, offices, banks and, above all, medical facilities have been forced to change the way they run business. The development of the pandemic caused concern among people. The Polish society fear of contracting the disease contributed to a change in the way they did their grocery shopping. The aim of the article is to present and characterise consumer behaviour in the way of purchasing food products on the Polish market under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article also includes research problems. In order to achieve the specified objective, the report of CBRE Research was used. The article consists of theoretical and empirical part. In the course of the research study it was found that despite the pandemic, consumers on the Polish market did not reduce the frequency of shopping, the monetary expenditures for grocery shopping increased and the number of consumers doing their grocery shopping online increased.