Stupid fucking OP. How can we be "experiencing" something that YOUR OWN FUCKING LINK says is "expected" to happen?
OF COURSE THEY'RE SPENDING A RECORD AMOUNT!! I spend a record amount every time I go to fucking Wal Mart thanks to your child molester n chief's massive inflation. Everything costs more. Doesn't mean they're buying more, it just means THEY'RE SPENDING MORE.
Oh yea, then they're just putting it on credit cards.
It’s Halloween! And while you may be thinking of goblins and ghosts, nothing can haunt you the way credit card debt does. While consumers’ credit card debt dropped during COVID, signs point to it starting to crawl back to pre-pandemic levels. And over the summer, credit card usage in the U.S...
www.gao.gov
Anyone catch the OP? Read it closely:
EXPECTED TO BE RECORD LEVEL. We are 3 days into the holiday shopping season with MULTIPLE websites talking about sluggish spending for the holidays.
Truth: People have less money to spend:
Americans are more cautious ahead of the holiday shopping season as they grapple with inflation, dwindling savings and rising debt.
www.usatoday.com
Spending sluggish:
Spending very sluggish:
Can we just call the OP bullshit and end this stupid thread?