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Personal care, beauty and grooming product purchases money saving strategies among Canadian consumers in 2014*

Characteristic	Share of respondents using strategy
Compared prices across stores to find the best deals	29%
Used a coupon	25%
Postponed a purchase until the product was on sale/special offer	25%
Used less/gone without something	20%
Switched from more expensive brands to less expensive brands	19%
Shopped more at discount stores	17%
Bought in bulk or large quantities to get a discount	13%
Traded or bartered products or services with someone	3%
None of these	29%

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2014

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Region

Canada

Survey time period

2014

Number of respondents

1,005 respondents

Age group

15 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

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* Consumers were asked which saving strategies they had used in the three months before the survey.

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This statistic shows the results of an online survey among more than 1,000 Canadian shoppers in 2014. Consumers in Canada were asked to describe their saving strategies regarding personal care, beauty and grooming product purchases. Some 25 percent of survey respondents reported using a coupon while shopping for personal care, beauty and grooming items in order to save money.

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Money saving strategies among Canadians - additional information

It is no surprise that saving money is an important matter for the Canadian consumer, as about 40 percent of them identified themselves as “savers”. About half of male Canadian consumers and almost 60 percent of female Canadian consumers see themselves as “bargain-hunter”. Canadians have several strategies to shop on a budget when it comes to cosmetics. Comparing prices across stores to find the best deal is a common practice among almost a third of the respondents. When shopping for personal care items, about half of both men and women in Canada want to spend as little time buying toiletries as possible.

The majority of Canadian consumers go online before making a purchase. More than 40 percent of the consumers in Canada search the Internet to find the best place to buy a product or service in advance to the actual purchase, and about half of the Canadian consumers go online to conduct broad online search before purchasing. More than half of the Canadian consumers would purchase the product or service online if the price was lower than in a store. Online shopping is popular among Canadians; as of July 2014, 82 percent of consumers between the ages of 35 and 54 said they were buying products or services online.