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Speaker 1: from cars to a an airline ticket a service up
Speaker 1: about zero point four percent last month, on top of
Speaker 1: a gain of one point one percent the month before.
Speaker 1: Some have even revised up their forecast for second quarter
Speaker 1: GDP because they say the consumer is strong. My next guest, though,
Speaker 1: Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners, said, when you
Speaker 1: look inside the report, it's not so good for retailers
Speaker 1: and they have a lot on their plate to spend
Speaker 1: on and we're gonna find out why. He says that.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm Kathleen Hayes Pin Fox, my co
Speaker 1: host on vacation. Now we go to Katherine Cowgary. She
Speaker 1: the Bloomberg newsroom with a business flash. Thank you, Kathleen,
Speaker 1: with a stock market is extending yesterday's games as global
Speaker 1: markets continue to recover following Britain's vote to make a
Speaker 1: break with the European Union. There's speculation that policymakers will
Speaker 1: continue to counter the effects of the withdrawal. In the
Speaker 1: wake of the vote, traders have pushed back bets on
Speaker 1: Federal reserve interest rate increases, indicating higher borrowing costs are
Speaker 1: unlikely before eighteen On taking Stock this afternoon at Marianna Cata, Lakota,
Speaker 1: former Minneapolis Fed president and a Bloomberg View columnists, was
Speaker 1: asked about a possible rate cut next month, that I
Speaker 1: don't anticipate that to be too likely on the FEDS
Speaker 1: genda and July. That is, I don't anticipate that there
Speaker 1: would be cutting rates in July. We check the markets
Speaker 1: every fifteen minutes on Bloomberg Radio, down Industrial average is
Speaker 1: up two hundred ninety points one point seven percent at
Speaker 1: seventeen thousand, six hundred nine eight s and d F
Speaker 1: founded up thirty six points one percent to two thousand
Speaker 1: seventy one. The NAZDAC is up ninety one points I
Speaker 1: gain of two percent. Trading at forty three West Texas
Speaker 1: Intermediate crude oil of a dollar fifty nine and barrel
Speaker 1: free point three percent to forty four. Spickled up six
Speaker 1: dollars nine agounce at ten year treasury down nine thirty
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Speaker 1: sit top let's get let's get an update of those benchmarks.
Speaker 1: The down industrial laverage is currently up two hundred eighty
Speaker 1: one point, trading at seventeen thousand, six nine. Smp F
Speaker 1: founded up thirty five points of two thousand seventy one
Speaker 1: nastack higher by ninety points. It's trading at forty seven
Speaker 1: eighty two. And that's a Bloomberg business flash. This is
Speaker 1: taking stock with Kathleen Hayes and Pim Fox on Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 1: The consumer fili spin of the US economy over the
Speaker 1: last two months has spent at a strong enough rate
Speaker 1: for the Photowers or Bank of Atlanta to say it
Speaker 1: looks more than ever like. The U s economy is
Speaker 1: on track for growth of over two and a half
Speaker 1: percent in the second quarter, and that's the growth of
Speaker 1: just over one percent in the first What does this
Speaker 1: mean for US retailers? Though a lot of things dry
Speaker 1: that broad, broad, broad measure of consumer spending. My next
Speaker 1: guest says, for retailers, there's all kinds of signs that
Speaker 1: the retail economy is sputtering. Craig Johnson is president of
Speaker 1: Customer Growth Partners. He's located in Connecticut, joining me who
Speaker 1: over in our New York studio today. Craig, welcome, It's
Speaker 1: always great to have you here. Great to be here, Kathleen.
Speaker 1: So when you look at that report and people a
Speaker 1: lot of economy is saying, oh strong GDP consumer spending
Speaker 1: looks good. What is your response, Well, our responses we
Speaker 1: look at we we were very forward looking. We're out
Speaker 1: in the stores every week, a team of people across
Speaker 1: the country. So the consumer does account for about sixty
Speaker 1: of the retail economy of the entire economy of the
Speaker 1: g DP, but sixty percent of that sixty percent is
Speaker 1: in services versus goods. Of course, retail is deal primarily
Speaker 1: in goods, and that is is being crowded out now
Speaker 1: by demands, nondiscretionary demands, whether healthcare whether insurance, whether housing,
Speaker 1: whether student debt payments. That that nondiscretionary set of demands
Speaker 1: is basically crowding out any kind of significant growth in retails.
Speaker 1: So right now we're looking at a flattish read not zero,
Speaker 1: but flattish kind of load to three plus percent in
Speaker 1: terms of retail sales growth. Now. In order to make
Speaker 1: people spend their money, particularly when they have choices and
Speaker 1: they really don't want to let it go easily, you've
Speaker 1: got to get them something hot. You've got to give
Speaker 1: them a new fashion or something that is so enticing
Speaker 1: they'll they'll eke it out even by the less expression
Speaker 1: expensive version of That is partly the fault of retailers
Speaker 1: that their merchandise just isn't dazzling enough. Well, right now,
Speaker 1: there are no giant crazes or fats. There's nothing really
Speaker 1: really hot. There are a couple of smaller things that
Speaker 1: are hot. Footwear, the sandal side is very Sandals are
Speaker 1: having its best season this year. This is where it's
Speaker 1: healed sandals, strappy sandals, et cetera. Um and rompers of
Speaker 1: all things are having to come back for the younger set.
Speaker 1: The younger female said, I should, I should say, but
Speaker 1: these are not giant category movers. And then the other
Speaker 1: problem that we're having is is that two of the
Speaker 1: things that have been hot, performance wear is peeking out
Speaker 1: and fast fashion is fading fast. And these have been
Speaker 1: two huge drivers in retail, and we're seeing both of
Speaker 1: these begin to peek out a little bit. Fast fashion
Speaker 1: fading fast. Well, that's a great one, isn't it. Let's
Speaker 1: let's say that again. Uh, why where do you see it?
Speaker 1: And uh will it pick up when more people It's
Speaker 1: only late June when people are more seriously saying, let's
Speaker 1: go to the mall, let's go downtown and buy some
Speaker 1: back to school close. Well, the lower traffic at the
Speaker 1: mall is part of the issue. But the problem in
Speaker 1: fast fashion per se is has been such an explosion
Speaker 1: of capacity of square foot its capacity over the last
Speaker 1: half decade or decade. This is from twenty one from
Speaker 1: H and M, from Zara and Unicuo, and these companies
Speaker 1: have all collectively overshot the runway, and so we're left
Speaker 1: with too many retails square feet in in fast fashion
Speaker 1: chasing too few customer feet. And that's why a unicorne
Speaker 1: has begun to show uh closed stores uh fever twenty one,
Speaker 1: which has been the giant, is seeing double digit negative comps. Uh.
Speaker 1: Even even H and M, which is remains of powerhouse internationally,
Speaker 1: is a little soft in the US well, speaking of retailers,
Speaker 1: UM and not sandals, but you know athletic footwear. Nike
Speaker 1: uh having some was under pressure. It's bounced back today,
Speaker 1: but yesterday reported that it's it's it's what they call
Speaker 1: their futures. Orders were up eleven percent. Analysts had projected
Speaker 1: what's gone with Nike? Are you worried about in Niko? Well,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of issues. That one is the performance
Speaker 1: where issue wanting this on the on the apparel side,
Speaker 1: the apparel is is a growing part of their business,
Speaker 1: but they're getting increasingly competition from from the vertical chains
Speaker 1: such as Lulu into one hand, and an under armour,
Speaker 1: which remains a powerhouse on the other hand. Uh, And
Speaker 1: so that's part of that, that's that's part of the issue. Now.
Speaker 1: They also claim in their commentary that there was some
Speaker 1: issue a year ago with the poor congestion delays which
Speaker 1: hyped up last year's work hard. Well, that's a little
Speaker 1: bit of excuse, but we think it's more the market
Speaker 1: is changing number one and under armour and the other
Speaker 1: performance where our specialties have been playing a bigger role. Brexit.
Speaker 1: That's not gonna have much influence on US retailers, is it,
Speaker 1: except that maybe people whose currency has fallen in value,
Speaker 1: like people who live in the UK, won't be coming
Speaker 1: over here as much as shot well on on the
Speaker 1: Brexit side. Yeah. What what we're seeing, I guess is
Speaker 1: a couple of things. One is not going to be
Speaker 1: a giant impact. First of all, international tourism has already
Speaker 1: been slow here. This is whether it's from a Britain, UH, Europe,
Speaker 1: South America, China, Asia, It's already been a week, so
Speaker 1: it isn't gonna get dramatically weaker. There are a couple
Speaker 1: of US vitos that have exposure in in in UH
Speaker 1: the UK, for instance, Abercrombie and Fitch, Walmart osdy unit
Speaker 1: and Costco. Costco is doing fine. A and f as
Speaker 1: weaken in over there, and then Walmart and Walmart's OZZ
Speaker 1: is weak. Costco is doing great. Walmart, how are they doing?
Speaker 1: Got ten seconds left? Uh? The Ozda unit right now
Speaker 1: is not faring well at all well in the UK.
Speaker 1: That that's their their their primarily grocery in some general
Speaker 1: e MERCHANCT that's a little weak. Otherwise, Walmart is doing
Speaker 1: a little bit better domestical in the US and some
Speaker 1: foreign geographies. All right, well, thanks so much to Craig Johnson,
Speaker 1: president of Customer Growth Partners. He says reef Tail is
Speaker 1: being hurt because families have too many things like education
Speaker 1: and healthcare to spend on and they can't buy as
Speaker 1: many closed shoes. In Athletic where I'm Kathleen Haze and
Speaker 1: this is taking stock on Bloomberg Radio, the consumer doesn't
Speaker 1: just buy clothes and shoes, you know, they go to
Speaker 1: the food and buy a lot of store. Coming up,
Speaker 1: Scott Rothbort from Lakeview Asset Management. He's been buying some
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