Services consumers consider essential during the COVID-19 crisis in the UK 2020

National lockdown measures announced by the UK government on March 23, 2020 halted all but "essential businesses" in an effort to reduce the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). According to the results of a recent survey conducted with UK adults, in addition to supermarkets which were considered essential by 98 respondents, cornershops/newsagents were regarded as essential businesses by 80 percent of those who took part in the survey. Of other retail shops, sports equipment stores and garden centers were largely considered non-essential during the COVID-19 crisis lockdown.

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