What Walmart's Q1 earnings are revealing about US consumers

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Walmart (WMT) posted its first-quarter earnings report revealing revenue that beat expectations and showed a growth in its e-commerce arm. Comparable sales...

Walmart CFO John David Rainey joined Yahoo Finance to give insight into the state of the consumerWalMart reported stronger than expected first quarter revenue and same store sales results, driven by a big jump in E commerce sales and more visits to its giant super centres.What did you What did you see?

And what's interesting, These higher income earners who sought some of these bargains during peak inflation? Now investors did have an inkling, especially if you look at some of the data compiled from seeking Alpha, which showed that Walmart was the least shorted consumer staple stock in the S and P 500 for April.

And so placer dot a I uses data on things like foot traffic transactions, digital shopping behaviour, which, of course, you mentioned E commerce as well as the demographics of consumers to help retailers figure out the trends ahead.And it's interesting because Walmart dominating there, too. NEW YORK — Your wallet may soon be getting thinner. Visa on Wednesday announced major changes to how credit and debit cards will operate in the U.S. in the coming months and years. The new features could mean Americans will be carrying fewer physical cards in their wallets, and will make the 16-digit credit or debit card number printed on every card increasingly irrelevant. They will be some of the biggest changes to how payments operate in the U.S. since the U.S.

 

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