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<h1>Instant Gratification Nation: The Impatient American Consumer [Infographic]</h1>
<div id="contentmeta">by <a title="Ayaz Nanji" href="https://www.marketingprofs.com/authors/1657/ayaz-nanji">Ayaz Nanji</a>  |</p>
<div id="contentdate">August 11, 2017</div>
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<div><img id="contentimage" class="padding" src="https://i.marketingprofs.com/assets/images/daily-data-point/110817-ddp-lg.jpg" width="250" align="left" />Many Americans say technology has made them more impatient today than they were five years ago, <a href="https://wearefetch.com/all-blog/our-news/the-instant-gratification-nation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a>recent research from <a href="https://wearefetch.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fetch</a> and <a href="https://today.yougov.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouGov</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://wearefetch.com/all-blog/our-news/the-instant-gratification-nation/">The report</a> was based on data from a survey of a YouGov poll conducted in May 2017 among 2,489 US adults age 18 and older.</p>
<p>Some 41% of respondents say technology has made them more impatient than they were five years ago. Among Millennials, the proportion is 45%.</p>
<p>Only 26% of respondents say they would wait longer than 30 minutes for takeout food, and 41% of consumers say they would not wait longer than 15 minutes for a ride requested via a mobile app.</p>
<p>Check out the infographic for more findings from the poll:</p>
<p><a name="storyContinued5"></a><a href="https://i.marketingprofs.com/assets/images/daily-data-point/impatient-LG-fetch-110817.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://i.marketingprofs.com/assets/images/daily-data-point/impatient-fetch-110817.jpg" alt="" width="630" height="2250" /></a></p>
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