1426-5915 Changes in transport and consumer behaviour as a result of retail restriction on Sundays on the example of Łódź (Poland) Zmiany w transporcie i zachowaniach konsumentów w wyniku ograniczenia handlu w niedziele na przykładzie Łodzi (Polska) Borowska-Stefańska Marta author Andrzejczak Grzegorz author Dulebenets Maxim A. author Horňák Marcel author Turoboś Filip author Wiśniewski Szymon author Uniwersytet Łódzki Politechnika Łódzka Comenius University, Department of Economic and Social Geography, Demography and Territorial Development, Bratislava Correspondence to: Marta Borowska-Stefańska marta.borowska@geo.uni.lodz.pl Correspondence to: Grzegorz Andrzejczak grzegorz.andrzejczak@p.lodz.pl Correspondence to: Maxim A. Dulebenets mdulebenets@eng.famu.fsu.edu Correspondence to: Marcel Horňák marcel.hornak@uniba.sk Correspondence to: Filip Turoboś filip.turobos@p.lodz.pl Correspondence to: Szymon Wiśniewski szymon.wisniewski@geo.uni.lodz.pl 18 06 2025 26 (2) 2023 57 76 Copyright © 2025 2025 The article was written under the project no. 2019/35/D/HS4/00697 funded by the National Science Centre in Poland. The project is co-financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under the framework of the subsidy for tertiary education aimed at academies and universities which participated in the IDUB Contest (‘Inicjatywa Doskonałości – Uczelnia Badawcza’) The goal of the study is to show how the restrictions on commercial businesses affected travel behaviour among residents of a large city in Central Europe (here: Lodz, Poland). To achieve this objective, a survey was conducted in autumn 2021 on a cohort of over 6,000 Lodz residents aged 13+ using the mixed-mode CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing) and CAWI (Computer Assisted Web Interviewing) techniques. The research sample size reflected the population demographics was representative. The results were utilised to identify particular groups of residents with specific transport and consumer behaviour using the clustering method. Five clusters were determined in which a correlation between the respondents’ traits (i.e., age and occupation) and transport and consumer behaviour could be discerned. Since both the oldest and the youngest respondents display low mobility (especially on Sundays), the Sunday retail restrictions have had little impact on the way they organise their time. People of working age (30-44 and 45-64 years old) exhibit different patterns, however. 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