Daniel Ackerman
speaker
269 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 1 Jun
Daniel Ackerman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, sales and inventories were up.
But Jessica Ramirez of the Consumer Collective says there's something to keep in mind about those numbers.
Really, it's prices are high.
high and rising fast, according to this week's inflation data.
So the jump in the headline numbers is really about stuff getting more expensive and not about more stuff getting sold.
Ramirez says in the face of all that, consumers are making hard choices.
She says that could mean a summer road trip instead of a long-distance flight.
But even the basics are putting a dent in wallets and bank accounts.
And that puts a big question mark around how much consumers will be able to keep spending in the months to come.
And if retail sales do fall off, the stores don't want to be left holding the bag, so they're not exactly packing their storerooms, says Jason Miller of Michigan State.
Some wholesalers, on the other hand, are building inventories, says Zach Rogers of Colorado State.
That's because inflation isn't going to disappear tomorrow.
Rogers says demand for some big ticket items might be soft.
But there are plenty of retail events later this year that wholesalers want to be ready for.
Rogers says wholesalers might want to buy all that stuff now rather than risk paying more for it later.
I'm Daniel Ackerman for Marketplace.
It's hard to discern even trends with a few years of data.
But the fact that we continue to see stronger productivity growth in the twos is suggestive of a pickup.
Recession is not too strong a term for the drop in sales at Whirlpool, says David McGregor, an analyst at Longbow Research.
This time around, the Iran war has led to higher energy costs that have stressed consumer budgets.
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