94% of Consumers Consider their Local Independent Grocery Stores Important to Their Community According to New SurgePays Survey

We conducted a survey for SurgePays, Inc. between November 12 – 26, 2022. gathering feedback from 1,116 adult respondents, age 18 and above on the importance of having local bodegas and convenience stores. In fact, the study found that they regard their local, independent stores and bodegas in near unanimous high regard with 94% of them calling them somewhat important (34%), very important (34%) or extremely important (26%) to their friends and community. These findings are important to SurgePays, as Brian Cox, Chairman and CEO states, “We are laser-focused on meeting the needs of the underbanked and underserved, our decades of experience in this market coupled with our ongoing market research and front-line sales data enables us to develop and roll out new services that are not just needed but are sought out by our target consumers. It’s extremely fulfilling when your revenue opportunities are driven by providing these life-enhancing telecom and financial services through the neighborhood stores in these communities.”

Read more about the survey on Yahoo!Finance and Globe Newswire.

Author Notes:

Jeffrey Henning

Jeffrey Henning, IPC is a professionally certified researcher and has personally conducted over 1,400 survey research projects. Jeffrey is a member of the Insights Association and the American Association of Public Opinion Researchers. In 2012, he was the inaugural winner of the MRA’s Impact award, which “recognizes an industry professional, team or organization that has demonstrated tremendous vision, leadership, and innovation, within the past year, that has led to advances in the marketing research profession.” In 2022, the Insights Association named him an IPC Laureate. Before founding Researchscape in 2012, Jeffrey co-founded Perseus Development Corporation in 1993, which introduced the first web-survey software, and Vovici in 2006, which pioneered the enterprise-feedback management category. A 35-year veteran of the research industry, he began his career as an industry analyst for an Inc. 500 research firm.