Consumers are estimated to have increased their retail and restaurant spending by 0.6% in March compared with the previous month, according to economists
Consumers are spending more on essentials like gasoline and food, cutting back on optional big-ticket purchases
Consumers are growing savvy to shrinkflation, the practice of downsizing the contents of a product rather than raising prices. So companies are getting creative. WSJ’s Annie Gasparro explains how to spot it in all its forms. Illustration: Adele Morganrapidly rising prices for gasoline surveyed by The Wall Street Journal. That would be a slight bump up from the
, according to the Commerce Department. The department will release its March retail-sales figures on Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET.
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