No Surprise Here: Rising Fuel Costs Lead Consumers to Shop More At Home, Survey Shows

Changes to discretionary spending include:
* 85 percent are cooking at home rather than going out.
* 55 percent are renting movies rather than seeing movies in theaters.
* 25 percent are shopping at home instead of shopping in stores.

The barriers to hinder shopping from home include:
* the inability to touch or try on merchandise, cited by 79 percent of adults;
* costs associated with shipping fees, cited by 71 percent; and
* inconvenient returns, cited by 55 percent.