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Firms, researchers, and policy makers often want to measure consumption and especially how events, promotions, or policies affect it. Measuring consumption reactions is often hard. Firms lack access to competitors’ sales data and regularly do not share their own with outsiders. Large samples of smartphone location data could solve this problem. This article describes a research project using smartphone location data to estimate consumption reactions to political conflict during the Trump presidency.