Macroeconomic headwinds are posing a very real threat to restaurants, with an increasing number of eateries now expecting the worst in their future. By the...
Inflation has settled in, stubbornly, near 40-year highs. As found in “The New Reality Check,” a PYMNTS and LendingClub collaboration, 92% of consumers said they...
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are getting hit with supplier price increases, and it’s showing up in what consumers are paying, too. For the study...
There’s an oft-repeated quip in business circles that says, “If you’ve managed to survive this long, you’re probably going to last.” While more than half...
If you’re feeling a bit more stressed out about making ends meet nowadays, there’s good reason. Perusing the headlines on PYMNTS this week doesn’t exactly...
Depending on who ask and how you ask it, consumers are either feeling a bit more confident about the economy as the fourth quarter gets...
While most everyone is parsing the consumer spending data from August, and while consumer spending continued to rise, there are some numbers that give one...
Consumer spending in August rose 0.4%, aligning with bigger paychecks and rebounding from a decline last month even as inflation stays high. Excluding food and...
Food prices may be skyrocketing all across the country, but consumers in rural areas are feeling this inflation the most acutely by a significant margin....