While retailers ramp up for Black Friday and Christmas, the 2020 shopping season is looking to be very different to what we have seen in previous years. With coronavirus cases continuing to rise across the United Kingdom and regions being under different tiers of restrictions, consumers may become increasingly wary of visiting busy stores in-person when they could shop from the safety of their own homes instead.

To find out how consumers are feeling about Christmas shopping this year, Sensormatic Solutions conducted a survey of 1,000 UK consumers. These are the trends we discovered.