It’s hard to tell. Car sales slowed last month and retailers across the board have surplus inventories now. A lot of this stuff is going to have be discounted to move, hence Target cutting its outlook to 2%, then growing to 6% in the “back half” of the year. That 6% figure is healthy for the fall and winter, and actually above pre-pandemic levels - what you’re looking out for. What I am hoping for is in the meantime, this summer season, is that consumers become more selective and pullback, and bring some power back to the consumer making retailers have to compete for less dollars. It would actually be good to see retailers like target coming in with a loss from the summer season.
Sure it does. The "overwhelmingly information from economic measurements". Sounds like an Asian knock-off government ministry.
Ah, I see you like to poke fun at autocorrect. I just hope you’re balancing the books and not giving financial and market guidance.
Well, I'd certainly not give it to the likes of you. I don't cloud my advice with political narrative, so it wouldn't ring true.
To you, gems are rocks. Believe it or not there are few people on this forum that have real insight. Not you of course.
If the clownery you call "insight" is what passes for wisdom, then I take that as a serious compliment.