Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers
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#2Most people in the US have some orientation towards independence and self-reliance, which economically translates to curtailing superfluous expenses.
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#3You have a group of shoppers that are boycotting brands they feel have backtracked on positions they previously held and you have income inequality getting worse so people can't afford the things they used to. Companies will feel the squeeze on both sides of those things.
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#4Most people in the US have some orientation towards independence and self-reliance, which economically translates to curtailing superfluous expenses.
I don't really see how that holds, historically it clearly hasn't?
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#5You have a group of shoppers that are boycotting brands they feel have backtracked on positions they previously held and you have income inequality getting worse so people can't afford the things they used to. Companies will feel the squeeze on both sides of those things.
Inequality getting worse is definitely going to start impacting company sales more and more. IMO we are watching the math of perpetual "growth" hit a finite world.
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#6I already told my wife and family this is going to be a dramatically pared back summer. Try not to get laid off. Try not to die. Try to not sow the seeds of your own demise.
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#7Most people in the US have some orientation towards independence and self-reliance, which economically translates to curtailing superfluous expenses.
Most people in the US live beyond their means through credit card debt.
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#8One small silver lining in all this is perhaps that it is such a clear cause and effect that people will remember in future. So many economic levers take many months or years to really play out, but everyone can grasp that the president imposed big tariffs on every country and the economy instantly tanked.
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#9Most people in the US have some orientation towards independence and self-reliance, which economically translates to curtailing superfluous expenses.
You're either saying something obvious and universal, or something blatantly false.
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