Plunge of Retail Inventories, Collapse of New & Used Vehicle Inventories: The Shortages Depicted in Charts by Wolf Richter • Jul 18, 2021 • 146 Comments Inventories at retailers document this mess.
Americans Pay More to Get Less: Retail Sales Outrun by Inflation by Wolf Richter • Jul 16, 2021 • 219 Comments Welcome to Fed’s New World of Inflation.
The Chilling Thing Disney’s “Black Widow” Said about the Future of Movie Theater Chains by Wolf Richter • Jul 12, 2021 • 180 Comments Opening weekend ticket sales in 98th place, but streaming revenues hit it out of the ballpark.
Anatomy of San Francisco Now: Fewer People, Jobs, Tourists, & Businesses, But More Spending by the Hangers-on (But that Was Inflation) by Wolf Richter • Jun 27, 2021 • 162 Comments The recovery as it were, after everything went to heck but didn’t.
The Breathtaking Collapse of Retail Rents in Manhattan, Year 7 by Wolf Richter • Jun 23, 2021 • 99 Comments Retailers willing to battle ecommerce will find “ample availability” – shuttered stores dotting the sidewalks – and much lower but still very high rents.
Where Shortages Show up: The WTF Plunge in Retail Inventories by Wolf Richter • Jun 21, 2021 • 159 Comments How messed up the economy has become, fueled by government moolah and Fed manna, when nothing and no one was ready for it.
Despite Massive Price Increases, Retail Sales Drop: Buyers’ Strike & Fading Stimmies Dent the WTF Spike by Wolf Richter • Jun 15, 2021 • 157 Comments Americans are having to pay more to get less.
Third Publicly Traded Mall REIT Files for Bankruptcy in Eight Months: Washington Prime Group, the Simon Property Spinoff by Wolf Richter • Jun 14, 2021 • 87 Comments The brick-and-mortar meltdown for mall landlord started years before the Pandemic. For WPG, it started in 2016.
WTF Spike of Retail Sales Lives Another Month on Surging Prices & $1,400 Stimmies. Gonna Be Tough in May by Wolf Richter • May 14, 2021 • 94 Comments Government gives consumers Free Money, retail sales spike. Free Money peters out, retail sales sag. Welcome to the new normal.
The Retail WTF Charts of the Year, Powered by $1,400-Stimmies and Massive Price Increases by Wolf Richter • Apr 15, 2021 • 208 Comments The government better not ever stop dousing consumers with free money.
