Segments From This Episode

• What life has been like for truck drivers amid the pandemic and recent fuel pipeline shutdown

  Marketplace’s Andy Uhler reports.

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• More data on U.S. prices, more signs of inflation

  Wholesale prices, driven by escalating costs for services and food, jumped 0.6% in April. What does that say about inflation in the U.S.? “It’s a more severe case in the early stages than I think anyone reasonably expected,” said Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst for Bankrate.com. The big question, of course, is whether this will be sustained, Hamrick said, and whether it causes the Federal Reserve to change course when it comes to policy on interest rates. The Fed has said that price increases will be temporary.

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• What happens when a store starts to die?

  by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon

  

  From Victoria’s Secret to J.C. Penney, struggling retailers have taken a couple of different paths to try to remain in business.

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