{"id":3670855,"date":"2026-04-22T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/?p=3670855"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:57:08","slug":"50percent-more-digital-shopping-days-put-parents-at-the-center-of-retails-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/consumer-insights\/2026\/50percent-more-digital-shopping-days-put-parents-at-the-center-of-retails-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"50% More Digital Shopping Days Put Parents at the Center of Retail\u2019s Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Busy parents may be giving global digital commerce its clearest growth signal yet. 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Digital Shopping Index: The Rise of the Mobile Window Shopper and What It Means for Payments<\/a>,\u201d a PYMNTS Intelligence study commissioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visaacceptance.com\/\">Visa Acceptance Solutions<\/a>. The report documents mobile shopping as a mainstream retail behavior worldwide: 48% of consumers used a phone for their most recent purchase, and 60% browse merchant sites multiple times a week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The more specific force shaping the market is parents. They engage in 50% more digital shopping activity days than the average consumer and shoppers with children under their care used a phone in 58.6% of their most recent purchases, compared with 40.7% for non-parents. Notably, the pattern holds across markets: even in countries where digital adoption is less intense overall, parents remain highly engaged mobile shoppers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That gives merchants a concrete playbook. The research shows these consumers gravitate toward clear payment choices, rewards, coupons, product details and easy-to-navigate stores. The implication is pointed: the next phase of digital growth may come less from new features than from eliminating the friction that slows someone down between school drop-off, work and dinner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Convenience, the data suggests, is no longer an amenity. It is becoming the product itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three numbers stand out:<\/p><div id=\"pymnt-1966864968\" class=\"pymnt-content pymnt-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 50px;\"><p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement: Scroll to Continue<\/p><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" id=\"dianomi_context_script\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dianomi.com\/js\/contextfeed.js\"><\/script> \r\n<div class=\"dianomi_context\" data-dianomi-context-id=\"4329\"><\/div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>59%\u00a0of the days parents shop digitally, they make a purchase, showing that this group is not just browsing more often. 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