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Consumer companies are staring down a stark divide: Shoppers either want ultracheap goods, like $3 crop tops from sites like Temu, or high-end items, like $300 running shoes from On Holding, a sneaker company that went public in 2021.
That’s according to investors, analysts and executives I spoke with at a Goldman Sachs retail conference this week. They all emphasized a variation of the same theme: When money is tighter or uncertainty is higher, as is the case now, shoppers want to feel like they’re spendi
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Amazon on Thursday added a temporary 50% discount to all orders made through its new Temu competitor, Amazon Haul. The aggressive discounting coincides with the holiday shopping season and comes one week after Amazon launched Haul, which features a Temu-like assortment of cheap products like $3 ... Read more ›
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