Walmart: Consumers No Longer Willing to Pay Whatever. Prices of Goods Fall Broadly, as Inflation Shifted to Services by Wolf Richter • Nov 16, 2023 • 162 Comments Food is the exception and pricing levels “continue to be a concern”: Walmart CEO. Sky-high food prices rose further.
Surging “Mortgage Demand” and “Declining Spending,” Really? Let’s Have a Look at Reality by Wolf Richter • Nov 15, 2023 • 88 Comments Home buyers “seize a dip in rates” and rush into the housing market, LOL?
Overindebted Out-of-Cash Sleep Number Blames Consumers for Results of Years of Mismanagement. Shares Collapsed 92% from Peak Consensual Hallucination by Wolf Richter • Nov 8, 2023 • 125 Comments This is the kind of chart my pantheon of Imploded Stocks is full of, driven by what I call “consensual hallucination” that then vanished.
Our Drunken Sailors Now Guzzling Directly from Punch Bowl: Powell, You Looking? Splurging Online, at Restaurants & Auto Dealers. YOLO by Wolf Richter • Oct 17, 2023 • 148 Comments Consumers still on a buying binge at retailers, fired up by big income increases that this year outran goods-inflation by a wide margin.
Sign of Tight Labor Market, Strength of Ecommerce: Amazon to Hire 250,000 for Holidays, up from 150,000 Last Year, Boost Wages, Offer Sign-on Bonuses by Wolf Richter • Sep 20, 2023 • 48 Comments While fewer and fewer Americans head to the malls.
Our Drunken Sailors Splurged at Stores & Auto Dealers amid Lower Prices of Durable Goods, Partied at Eating & Drinking Places, and Paid an Arm and a Leg at Gas Stations by Wolf Richter • Sep 14, 2023 • 166 Comments They spent a record amount more at bars & restaurants than at food & beverage stores, which tells us something about our drunken sailors.
Defaulted Crossgates Mall CMBS Loans Sold at 69% Below 2012 Appraised Value of the Mall by Wolf Richter • Aug 18, 2023 • 112 Comments CRE debt keeps on giving. Retail CMBS have been a bloodbath for years. Thankfully, banks largely not on the hook.
Drunken Sailors Partying Hard: Retail Sales Jump despite Cooling Inflation in Goods that Retailers Sell by Wolf Richter • Aug 15, 2023 • 128 Comments They partied most at Restaurants & Bars, and at ecommerce retailers. If I hear one more time consumers are “tapped out,” I’m going to scream.
Our Drunken Sailors Are Still at it, Splurging Online, Buying Cars, Eating Out by Wolf Richter • Jul 18, 2023 • 146 Comments But the 26% plunge in gasoline prices hit gas stations. The pandemic home-remodeling & furnishing boom is over. Ecommerce keeps killing department stores.
Dropping Prices of Goods Hit Retail Sales (Inflation Shifted to Services, Which Retailers Don’t Sell). Charts by Retail Category by Wolf Richter • Jun 15, 2023 • 56 Comments But ecommerce sales continue to soar, despite price drops.
