Re:Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers
by layoric on Saturday April 26, 2025 @08:11PM
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Inequality getting worse is definitely going to start impacting company sales more and more. IMO we are watching the math of perpetual "growth" hit a finite world.
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Re:Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers
by andrewjf on Saturday April 26, 2025 @11:24PM
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I mean, the middle class finally died a decade ago and all the money was siphoned off to the top. I don’t think is has much to do with growth in it of itself
Re:Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers
by trilbyglens on Sunday April 27, 2025 @02:27AM
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The upper classes have extracted growth from a slowing curve by carving more and more out of the middle and lower classes. To them it looks like growth, but it's really just stealing from the bottom to pad the curve.
Re:Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers
by andrewjf on Sunday April 27, 2025 @04:27PM
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Exactly, now they're out of other peoples money.
Re:Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers
by gruez on Saturday April 26, 2025 @11:31PM
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Recessions happen all the time. What makes you think it's not that but "perpetual "growth" hit a finite world"? What bottlenecks are we running into that's causing growth to stop?
Re:Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers
by quickslowdown on Sunday April 27, 2025 @12:07AM
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I mean, the extremely obvious answer is tarrifs at the moment.
Re:Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers
by pgwhalen on Sunday April 27, 2025 @09:10AM
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Tariffs might be a cause of the next recession, but they aren’t a sign of some fundamentalists on perpetual growth like OP was asking about. They’re just the arbitrary doing of one man.