Target CEO Brian Cornell says shoppers are pulling back, even on groceries, as they feel stressed about their budgets.
In an interview with CNBC’s Becky Quick that aired Thursday morning, he emphasized that the retailer has posted seven consecutive quarters of declining sales of discretionary items, such as apparel and toys, in terms of both dollars and units.
“But even in food and beverage categories, over the last few quarters, the units, the number of items they’re buying, has been declining,” he said in the interview.
I see the capitalists are meeting their own consequences of greed now. Yeah what did they think taking away all the jobs and giving it to computers thereby hoarding all the money so no one has any to shop with would result in? Apparently spendable money is as finite as the people on the planet. Who would have thought?
You can’t have a consumerist economy when the average consumer cannot afford anything.