--- title: Understanding Customer Behaviour image: https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/savills-retail-leasing-hero.jpg --- [![Cohera-Tech, powered by Vemco Group](https://info.cohera-tech.com.au/hubfs/Cohera-Blog/logo_blue.png)](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/) ☰ - [ABOUT](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/about-us/) - SOLUTIONS - [OCCUPANCY](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/occupancy/) - [Safe Occupancy Monitoring](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/safe-occupancy-monitoring/) - [People Counting System Upgrade Replacement](https://info.cohera-tech.com.au/switch-people-counting-software) - [INDUSTRIES](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/industries/) - [RETAIL](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/industries/retail/) - [Shopping Centres](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/people-counting-shopping-centres/) - [Public](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/industries/public/) - [Education](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/industries/education/) - [Art Galleries & Museums](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/people-counting-museums-art-galleries/) - [Commercial](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/industries/commercial/) - [Hospitality](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/people-counting-hospitality/) - [RESOURCES](https://info.cohera-tech.com.au/blog) - [CONTACT](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/contact-cohera-tech/) Blog - Latest News You are here: [Home](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au) / [Knowledge](https://info.cohera-tech.com.au/blog/tag/knowledge) / Understanding Customer Behaviour [![retail shopping](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/savills-retail-leasing-hero.jpg) retail shopping](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/savills-retail-leasing-hero.jpg) # Understanding Customer Behaviour February 1, 2023 / in Knowledge, White Paper / by Kevin Ford ## Managing changing customer behaviour & preferences in a Post–COVID world The impact of lockdowns, reduced capacity levels and physical distancing have changed the way that the majority of Australian consumers are behaving. The acute effects of COVID on business may have passed, but the chronic impacts on the way people think and feel about being amongst crowds haven’t. ![consumer themes](https://www.cohera-tech.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/emerging-consumer-themes-2022.webp "emerging-consumer-themes-2022") Source: McKinsey & Company ## Consumer behaviour has changed in the wake of 2 years of COVID impacts A McKinsey [survey](https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/survey-australian-consumer-sentiment-during-the-coronavirus-crisis) published in Oct 2022 highlighted the following: - Nearly two-thirds of Australians are engaged in normal out-of-home activities, three in five with modified behaviour - 50-70% of Australian consumers are engaging with modified behaviour in categories including shopping, entertainment, travel and social gathering - 56% of consumers switched brands or retailers in the last three months; more than 80% of them intend to continue the behaviour > The impact of lockdowns, reduced capacity levels and physical distancing have changed the way that > > 60% of people have changed their behaviour when shopping, dining or experiencing entertainment. 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