Jul 16, 2021
We didn’t buy more in June, but we did spend more …
Retailers are shifting focus to match inflation-weary customers' preferences for savings over slurging.
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While retail sales were up 0.6% in the month of June, sales in quantity terms were down — the reason is inflation. Plus, a look at the banking sector's insistence that employees return to the office. And we'll hear from a farm in California's Central Valley that is battling historic drought.
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The ins and outs of the retail sales rebound
Is this an illusion created by inflation? "Marketplace Morning Report" regular Christopher Low, chief economist at FHN Financial, joins us to hash it out.
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David Brancaccio
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