What retailers are telling us

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What retailers are telling us - Financial Times

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While the companies say — as they have for several quarters — that customers are “focused on value”, and at times hesitant about big-ticket purchases, it’s hard to find any signs of a recent slowdown in the retailers’ results.

And we can navigate this in a way as we balance all the interest between customers, shareholders and everyone else such that we can keep prices low enough to help people and grow profit faster than sales.

Walmart reported on May 15th, and said, with admirable plainness, that “given the magnitude of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week, we aren’t able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins”.