Browsing: Consumer Spending
Even McDonald’s CEO knows the fast-food giant is too expensive. Now he’s cutting prices to woo back cash-strapped consumers
McDonald’s has been struggling to hold on to its low-cost image. Now fast food’s largest brand is trying to fix…
Exclusive: MAHA is reshaping Amazon and other consumer packaged goods companies’ supply chains more than tariffs right now, manufacturing platform CEO says
U.S. consumer packaged goods (CPG) giants are racing to get ahead of President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again movement.…
Wayfair CFO says sellers on the company’s $12 billion marketplace are trying to ‘insulate’ customers from tariffs
The home goods category has seen its share of twists and turns over the past five years: a pandemic-era boom…
Gen Z was growing obsessed with luxury watches. New tariffs on Switzerland could cool the expensive hobby
Gen Z’s fascination with luxury watches has been one of the more surprising consumer trends of the last few years.…
The mighty American consumer keeps shrugging off tariffs as retail sales rise 0.5% in July
Shoppers spent at a healthy pace in July, particularly at the nation’s auto dealerships, as they shrug off President Donald…
‘I am overwhelmed by the need to stay on top of where the deals are’: Back-to-school shopping turns into China tariff-dodging exercise
Feeling nostalgic for the days when going back to school meant picking out fresh notebooks, pencils and colored markers at a local…
The gap between higher and lower-income households is widening as inequality progress since pandemic has ‘gone into reverse,’ BofA economist says
America’s consumer economy showed renewed signs of strength in July, but the gains are not being shared equally. According to…
Gen Alpha has surpassed $100 billion in spending power from side hustles and bankrolling parents—and Roblox and Nike are among the big winners
Members of Gen Alpha are too young to drive themselves to a store or open up a credit card in…
Spending on AI data centers is so massive that it’s taken a bigger chunk of GDP growth than shopping—and it could crash the American economy
The mighty American consumer may have finally met their match, and it’s a giant hulking rectangular box that hosts very…
Wall Street’s view of a ‘Kevlar economy’ has just been shattered, but red flags were lurking under the radar
The recent batch of indicators has punctured the notion on Wall Street that the U.S. economy is bulletproof and can…












