Spozycie produktow zywnoœciowych w wielkomiejskich gospodarstwach domowych w Polsce w okresie kryzysu finansowo-ekonomicznego. (The consumption of foodstuffs of large-city households in Poland during financial and economic crisis.)

The global economic crisis has clearly affected the economies of all countries. Regarding the social sphere, its impacts include growing unemployment, decreasing household incomes, changes in the consumption structure and lifestyles, serious states of anxiety and depression induced in people by likely dismissals and problems with finding new jobs, sinking financial situation, fear of losing the savings one has accumulated or of becoming insolvent. Because the crisis changed the socio-economic reality in Poland too, the article concentrates on the consumption of foodstuffs in Polish households. Following the presentation of the research methodology, assumptions and the sample of households, food expenditures and the consumption of selected foodstuffs in Polish households faced with the financial and economic crisis are analyzed and the key factors determining this type of purchases are discussed. The article ends with a recapitulation of the discussion and major conclusions.