Retail

Bad Breath of Inflation Sinks Target, Walmart, Other Retailers on Surging Costs of Products, Labor, and Transportation

by Wolf Richter • May 18, 2022 • 124 Comments

Not a revenue-shocker (they were up even from stimulus-miracle a year ago), but a cost-shocker. Unable to pass on all the cost increases, their margins got squeezed.

Americans Are in a Sour Mood, But it Didn’t Dampen their Spending: Splurging at Retailers, Especially Some Retailers

by Wolf Richter • May 17, 2022 • 191 Comments

Retail Therapy at Bars & Restaurants, Cannabis Stores, and Ecommerce? Other retailers not so lucky.

Massacre of the Online Retail Stocks Amazon, eBay, Wayfair, Etsy, Shopify, Chewy, The Honest Co., as Folks Shift Spending from Goods Back to Services

by Wolf Richter • May 5, 2022 • 243 Comments

On crappy earnings and lowered guidance, many of these highflyer stocks kathoomphed -70% to -85% from highs last year.

Retail Sales v. Raging Inflation, Stimulus Miracle March, and the Red-Hot Shift to Services

by Wolf Richter • Apr 14, 2022 • 212 Comments

It’s rough out there in multiple ways.

After Having Blown $31 Billion on Share Buybacks to Prop Up its Shares, Starbucks Ends Them, to Invest in “Our People and Our Stores.” The New Old CEO Gets It. Shares Tank

by Wolf Richter • Apr 4, 2022 • 106 Comments

Great news, but not for the stock. Share buybacks gutted Starbucks. The SEC should again rule them illegal market manipulation, as it had until 1982.

Americans Make Huge Efforts to Keep up with Raging Prices

by Wolf Richter • Mar 16, 2022 • 138 Comments

Retail sales amid record worst inflation in durable goods and red-hot inflation in nondurable goods.

Americans Spent Money Like Drunken Sailors, But Did They Outspend the Raging Inflation in Durable & Nondurable Goods? Um, No

by Wolf Richter • Feb 16, 2022 • 165 Comments

Two elephants in retail: A historic spike in prices of goods and seasonal adjustments as the Pandemic upended seasonality.

Empty Shelf at a Grocery Store Near You? Tight Inventories, Labor Shortages, Supply Chain Snags, Strong Sales, Soaring Costs

by Wolf Richter • Jan 17, 2022 • 258 Comments

It shows how brittle the system has become in face of every new challenge.

Oh My, the American Consumer amid the Distortions and Price Spikes of Our Time

by Wolf Richter • Jan 14, 2022 • 131 Comments

“Not seasonally adjusted” retail sales spiked to a record. “Seasonally adjusted” retail sales fell. Both: +16.9% from year ago. What the heck is going on?

Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown Manhattan Style, Year 6: Have Retail-Shop Rents Collapsed Enough Yet?

by Wolf Richter • Dec 21, 2021 • 105 Comments

In a number of shopping corridors, asking rents collapsed by 50% to 73%, amid a slew of vacant stores. But in one corridor, rents jumped.

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