Normal life resumes
27/5/2003 17:43
Shanghai residents are gradually resuming their normal lives and
consumption as the SARS epidemic comes under control, with nearly half of locals
going shopping over the past week, according to a survey by the Shanghai
Commercial Information Center of 100 local consumers, the Youth Post reported
today.
According to the survey, although 72 percent of interviewees
thought SARS still affected their consumption, only 16 percent of them thought
the impact was very significant. Twenty-eight percent of interviewees thought
SARS had little effect on their consumption habits.
A full 46 percent of
interviewees had been shopping in the main local commercial zones over the past
week, with six percent of them going shopping more than twice, according to the
survey.
According to the survey, 30 percent of interviewees aged between
20 and 30 shopped online, placed mail orders or ordered goods over the telephone
last week, while 94 percent of interviewees aged between 40 and 60 preferred to
purchase a great deal of goods at one time or didn't purchase temporarily to get
through the tough period.
Half of interviewees didn't go out to dinner
last week, with 75 percent of interviewees aged between 50 and 60 not going out
to dinner, while the proportion only reached 36.6 percent for the interviewees
aged between 20 and 30, the survey indicated. Fourteen percent of interviewees
went out for dinner more than twice last week.
Thirty-seven percent of
interviewees preferred to have fast-food in a good sanitary environment, nine
percent of locals surveyed chose taken-away food and four percent preferred to
eat at outdoor restaurants, according to the
survey.
Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news
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