Almost two-thirds of U.S. adults say they are purchasing more generic brands to save money, slightly up from February when 63 percent said they were doing this, according to a Harris poll conducted last month.
Almost half of Americans (48 percent) say they are brown-bagging lunch, also slightly up from February when 45 percent said they were doing this. Two in five U.S. adults each say they have switched to refillable water bottles instead of purchasing bottles of water (39 percent) and are going to the hairdresser less often (38 percent). In February, one-third of Americans (34 percent) had switched to refillable water bottles to save money. Also, one-quarter (24 percent) have cut down on dry cleaning. In addition to brown-bagging it, one in five Americans (22 percent) have stopped purchasing coffee in the morning.
