Retail Focus 4/11/21 – Consumer Anxiety Begins to Lift in U.S.; Meijer Releases Sales Trends

Our interview guest is Anthony Waelter, vice chairman at Deloitte LLP and Deloitte’s U.S. consumer industry leader, who joins us to discuss their most recent Global State of the Consumer Tracker data. Specifically, we talk with him about consumer anxiety levels (and risk tolerance) as well as why consumers might buy more—or less—online post-pandemic. In news, we get a rare update from Meijer regarding sales trends in the past year, and we note sad news by way of BJ’s Wholesale Club.