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semideclared OP t1_j15p3d3 wrote

Reply to comment by groovycoyote in [OC] What Impact has Covid and Inflation had on Grocery Shopping Trends in the US from 2019 - 2022 by semideclared

Thats it though....theres been no change

The biggest shopping weekend in 4 years was the 2 weeks in the middle of March 2020 as everyone panic bought. Every Year July 4th, Memorial Day, Christmas and Thanksgiving are the normal outliers for shopping

That left April Covid and October Inflation as good comparisons

Inflation, and a Pandemic....and we still buy the same kind of things

Ground Beef or Steak, Cokes and Pepsi, Fruit Drinks, Crackers, Cookies, and Frozen Meals

None of this really changed in the Same week in each year even as life changed so much

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groovycoyote t1_j15qbyx wrote

Then that is your takeaway. There is absolutely no need to use so much text and color. Choose a few key categories that are a good representation of people's overall shopping habits and add those as your colored lines. You can add another line with a neutral color combining all the rest and show the average values over time. Drop all the numbers from the chart and add a subtitle that says how nothing has changed despite this and that. And please use a logical order for the dates on the X axis.

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semideclared OP t1_j15t41h wrote

IF you use Beef, Beer, Cokes, Stouffer Frozen Food, Crackers, and Oreo's, well that only 50% and people just think youre being to selective to make fun of American Diets

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