Screened every earnings call from the last month for management describing a change in US consumer behavior.
The thing that showed up unprompted - gas.
$PEP: impulse channels hit, "a slowdown of the conversion of traffic into purchases"
$STZ: "a massive spike in gas prices, and we did see the consumer... respond by slowing down"
$FHN: lower income "spending less on certain categories like dining out, more on fuel"
Three unrelated names, same explanation, nobody asked them about it.
Rest of the table:
$ACI has low-income shoppers moving to cheaper proteins while higher-end holds up. GIS says buying on promo instead of everyday price, trading down pack sizes.
$TSCO and
$NKE both on deferred discretionary.
$CMCSA calls promo intensity "irrational" in some markets.
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