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49% -- share of consumers spending more on comfort meals or drinks in winter for UK consumers (2025)
49% of UK consumers say they spend more on comfort meals or drinks in the winter months.
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49%
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2025
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95
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60
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20
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30
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45
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95
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Ripple Research
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https://ripple-research.com/opinion/seasonal-susceptibility/ ↗
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How Brands Keep Us Spending In Winter Months
With the clocks set back an hour and love island contestants turning on Christmas lights across the country, I was wondering if there was a change of mindset in the PR world that ties into the changing of the season?
In fact, people’s spending habits do change when the weather turns. New data from R…
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Ripple Research
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UK consumers: 49% share of consumers spending more on comfort meals or drinks in winter. Source: Ripple Research (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-consumers-spend-more-comfort-meals-winter
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-consumers-spend-more-comfort-meals-winter" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>49%</strong> -- share of consumers spending more on comfort meals or drinks in winter for UK consumers<br><small>Source: Ripple Research (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-consumers-spend-more-comfort-meals-winter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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