{"id":88986,"date":"2025-10-21T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/88986\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:48:10","slug":"weight-loss-drugs-changing-consumer-spending-habits-analysis-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/88986\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight loss drugs changing consumer spending habits, analysis finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound aren&#8217;t just making people lighter \u2014 they&#8217;re also changing how people shop.<\/p>\n<p>A new analysis of consumer behavior from PwC, published in the Harvard Business Review, suggests the GLP-1 medications are leading people to spend less on groceries and to choose healthier options.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at more than 11,000 U.S. households, the analysis found that grocery spending declined 6% to 8% within the first year where a GLP-1 user was the primary food purchaser.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/health\/medicine\/eli-lilly-could-bring-first-widely-available-glp-1-pill-for-obesity-diabetes-to-market-this-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Lilly could bring first widely available GLP\u20111 pill for obesity, diabetes to market this year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Outside the grocery store, people are spending less on fast food but spending more on full service restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers are also buying more clothes. Some of that is to replace clothes that no longer fit, but also suggests people are feeling more confident \u2014 with GLP-1 users spending about 4% to 5% more on apparel around six months after their treatment begins. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also showing up in vacation choices, with more people choosing trips that focus on wellness. <\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound aren&#8217;t just making people lighter \u2014 they&#8217;re also changing how people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,85,46,482],"class_list":{"0":"post-88986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}