… targeting individual consumer & producer behaviour alone has limited impact. Food environments—shaped by manufacturers, retailers & restaurants—often dominate. R&D, regulation, education & public assistance could help.

#Diets #Health #Consumers #Behavior #FoodSystems #FoodEnvironment

Index of Consumer Sentiment - PRELIMINARY - APRIL 2026: 47.6 MORE: >> https://money.fedprimerate.com/2026/04/USA--Soft-Data--Consumer--Sentiment--PRELIMINARY--Results--APRIL--2026.html << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/--C-- << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/--CS-- << #Economy #ConsumerSentiment #Commerce #Shopping #FedPrimeRate #Trade #USA #Consumers #Jobs #Employment #Business #Spending #ConsumerSpending #America #Inflation #FamilyFinances #Finances #InterestRates #TheFed #Consumer #Income #PersonalIncome

Index of Consumer Sentiment - PRELIMINARY - APRIL 2026: 47.6

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#ConsumerSentiment #Commerce #Shopping #FedPrimeRate #Trade #Consumers #Jobs #Employment #Business #Spending #ConsumerSpending #Inflation #Finances #InterestRates #Consumer #Income

$50,000 for a brand new car that needs constant service!🤷‍♂️🧐 #scam #fraud #consumers #auto

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"War in Iran sends #inflation soaring and the mood of American #consumers plunging"

"War in Iran sends inflation soaring and the mood of American consumers plunging"

#Russia #India #China #USA #Drones #Technology #Security #News #Iran #Israel #War #EU #NATO #Oil #Nuclear #Weapons #Trump […]

CORE Consumer Price Index for MARCH 2026: +2.6% Year-on-Year > Previous = +2.46% < MORE: >> https://economy.fedprimerate.com/2026/04/USA--Hard--Data--INFLATION--Consumer--Price--Index--CPI--MARCH--2026.html << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/Inflation-Data << MORE: >> http://bit.ly/Consumer-USA << #Inflation #FedPrimeRate #Economy #CPI #CoreCPI #Consumer #Money #CostOfLiving #Goods #Prices #Consumers #Trade #Disinflation #ConsumerPriceIndex #Housing #Healthcare #Communications #Transportation #Food #Recreation #Beverages #Goods #Services #Goods #Shopping #Prices #Value

CORE Consumer Price Index for MARCH 2026: +2.6% Year-on-Year

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#Inflation #FedPrimeRate #Economy #CPI #CoreCPI #Consumer #Money #CostOfLiving #Goods #Prices #Consumers

Graph: consumer sentiment plunges

‪Consumer sentiment plunges

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ROSENBERG: “.. consumer sentiment at its lowest level since the series began in November 1952! .. undercutting the lows of all the prior eleven recessions .. the 1970s oil shock,.. the Asian financial […]

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Yet it is charged at #fossil fuel rates?? Somebody is making a lot of #money out of solar power but the #consumers are not getting the benefits. Another rip off that needs to stop.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - THIRD / FINAL Estimate for Q4, 2025: +0.5% MORE: >> https://economy.fedprimerate.com/2026/04/USA--Hard--Data--Gross--Domestic--Product--GDP--THIRD--FINAL--Estimate--Q4--2025.html << MORE: > https://bit.ly/-GDP- < #Economy #GDP #GrossDomesticProduct #FedPrimeRate #Trade #RealEstate #USA #Exports #Imports #Spending #PCEPriceIndex #ConsumerSpending #Inflation #CorporateEarnings #Consumer #Income #PersonalIncome #Consumers

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - THIRD / FINAL Estimate for Q4, 2025: +0.5%

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#Economy #GDP #GrossDomesticProduct #FedPrimeRate #Trade #Spending #ConsumerSpending #Inflation #Consumers #Income #Exports #Imports

Video Privacy Violations? Join Others Taking Action Several websites are under investigation for possibly sharing users’ video viewing histories with Facebook in violation of the law. See if the sites you use are included and join others taking action.

#VPPA Legal Investigations:
Is Your #VideoData Being Shared with Third Parties?

Affects:
#Consumers who watched #videocontent on any platforms or #televisions under investigation for potential violations of a federal law known as the #VideoPrivacyProtectionAct

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“If I saw that, a drink with 16 teaspoons of sugar, I’d put it down”: qualitative insights into Australian adolescents’ reactions to front-of-pack label options for sugar-sweetened beverages - BMC Nut... Background Mandatory front-of-pack warning labels on food and beverages assist consumers in making informed consumption and purchase choices. There has been limited research into adolescents’ response...

Mandatory front-of-pack warning #labels on food help #consumers make informed purchase choices. Among #adolescents, labels showing the #sugar content of beverages as number of teaspoons worked best, indicating potential for behaviour change: doi.org/10.1186/s407... #drinks #soda #nutrition #labeling

How can we support #EnergyEfficient products through a simple and effective EU framework? ♻️

7️⃣key recommendations for the @EU_Commission to ensure the upcoming #EnergyEfficientProductsOmnibus reduces administrative burdens and delivers better outcomes for #consumers.

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Tell your State Attorney General: Hold Live Nation-Ticketmaster accountable Through multiple investigative reports, More Perfect Union has been holding Live Nation-Ticketmaster accountable for years. Our investigative reporting found that ticket prices for the biggest acts...

🚨 SIGN NOW: TELL YOUR ATTORNEY GENERAL TO HOLD LIVE NATION-TICKETMASTER ACCOUNTABLE 👇🏼

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#Politics #USPolitics #Business #AG #AttorneyGeneral #Entertainment #Music #Events #Consumers #Monopoly #TicketMaster #LiveNation #TakeAction #Petition #SignThePetition

US #consumers and companies appear to have absorbed most of the #tariff costs, though untangling the true impact on ongoing #inflation and growth remains difficult given the interplay of tax breaks, #immigration crackdowns and an #energy shock from the Iran conflict.

1y on from President Trump’s #LiberationDay #tariffs, it appears that US #consumers have felt the brunt of the impact. Evidence suggests #tariffs have increased prices and weighed on growth, chart #JPMorganAM

#prices
In Brf:
"supply chains are always #power #relations. Larger the portion of the market a corporation commands, greater that corporation's ability to protect its #profit margins by passing on any cost increaces to #consumers (or by reducing their workers' #wages)
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#consumers are paying more for #chocolate #eggs this #Easter even as global #cocoa prices tumble, as #manufacturers try to recoup losses from a recent surge in the price of the raw material chart @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/f6d4...

Charged Junk Fees for Online Purchases? Attorneys are pursuing legal action against popular online vendors regarding how certain fees are charged, represented and disclosed. You could be owed money back, so sign up today.

#Arbitration for #JunkFees, #DripPricing and #HiddenCharges

#Consumers who were charged so-called junk fees, were subjected to #illegal practices that #obscurefees for certain #onlinepurchases or #transactions, or were charged #fees in violation of law.

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Something needs to be done when it comes to the rising food prices in the U.S. #food #foodprices #consumers

Retail Sales During FEBRUARY 2026: +0.6% M/M > Year-On-Year Change: +3.71% < MORE: >> https://economy.fedprimerate.com/2026/04/USA--Hard-Data--Shopping-Retail-and-Food--Services-Sales--Report--FEBRUARY--2026.html << MORE: >> http://bit.ly/Consumer-USA << #Shopping #Economy #FedPrimeRate #Retailers #Consumers #RetailSales #Consumer #Spending #Consumerism #ConsumerSpending #Commerce #Trade #Retail #Sales #Money #USA #America #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesofAmerica #Business

Retail Sales During FEBRUARY 2026: +0.6% M/M

> Year-On-Year Change: +3.71% <

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#Shopping #Economy #FedPrimeRate #Retailers #Consumers #RetailSales #Consumer #Spending #ConsumerSpending #Commerce #Trade

FTC Testifies before the Joint Economic Committee on Agency’s Efforts to Combat Fraud The Federal Trade Commission testified today before the Joint Economic Committee about the agency’s ongoing work to combat fraud and protect consumers from scammers and other bad actors.

FTC Testifies before the Joint Economic Committee on Agency’s Efforts to Combat Fraud

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#Politics #USPolitics #Government #TrumpAdministration #FTC #FederalTradeCommission #JointEconomicCommittee #Fraud #Consumers #ConsumerProtection

Have Trump's tariffs worked? This is where things stand a year after 'Liberation Day' It has been a year since President Trump announced double-digit tariffs on imports from around the world. So far, those levies have not produced the economic boom the president promised.

Here's NPR afraid to tell you that Trump's tariffs are a huge fail, sucking billions out of the pockets of industry and consumers, while limiting and deflating sectors of our economy.
www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

Consumer Confidence Index - MARCH, 2026: 91.8 > Previous Month (revised): 91.0 < MORE: >> https://money.fedprimerate.com/2026/04/USA--Soft--Data--Consumer--Confidence--Index--CCI---MARCH---2026.html << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/Consumer-USA << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/-C-C- << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/--CC-- << #Economy #ConsumerConfidence #FedPrimeRate #Trade #USA #Consumers #Jobs #Employment #Business #Spending #ConsumerSpending #Inflation #TheConferenceBoard #ConferenceBoard #FamilyFinances #Finances #JobOpenings #InterestRates #Consumer #Income #PersonalIncome

Consumer Confidence Index - MARCH, 2026: 91.8

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#ConsumerConfidence #FedPrimeRate #Trade #Consumers #Jobs #Employment #Spending #ConsumerSpending #Inflation #Finances #InterestRates #Consumer #Income

New Google tool allow users to scrub more personal data to keep them safe from online thieves Google is rolling out a new feature called “Results about you” to help users scrub more sensitive information such as social security and driver’s license numbers from internet se…

#Google #tool allow #users to scrub #personal #data to keep them #safe from #online #thieves.
In 2025, #FTC received 3 million #fraud reports from #consumers who lost $15.9 #billion to #scammers.
#scam #bank #money #crypto #deception #AI #Bot #ColdCall #Phone #Mobile nypost.com/2026/03/28/u...

Soaring #fuel prices continue to hit #consumers #worldwide

youtu.be/AuRRHKQ6Mqo

“America produces a lot of oil & the domestic oil industry will be earning large windfall profits even as US #consumers suffer. But so what? We don’t have any mechanism in place to capture & redistribute those windfall gains, so ordinary U.S. families will bear the full brunt of the .. oil shock …”

youtube.com/shorts/9_HMV... What the #TrumpAdministration and #GOP are doing to #Consumers.

Big Ole Market Consolidation = Many Condiment & Spice Prices Will Go Up 🫠
#foodprices #groceries #consumers #merger linktr.ee/memesandmusings

Index of Consumer Sentiment - FINAL - MARCH 2026: 53.3 MORE: >> https://money.fedprimerate.com/2026/03/USA--Soft-Data--Consumer--Sentiment--FINAL--Results--MARCH--2026.html << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/--C-- << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/--CS-- << #Economy #ConsumerSentiment #Commerce #Shopping #FedPrimeRate #Trade #USA #Consumers #Jobs #Employment #Business #Spending #ConsumerSpending #America #Inflation #FamilyFinances #Finances #InterestRates #TheFed #Consumer #Income #PersonalIncome

Index of Consumer Sentiment - FINAL - MARCH 2026: 53.3

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#ConsumerSentiment #Commerce #Shopping #FedPrimeRate #Trade #Consumers #Jobs #Employment #Business #Spending #ConsumerSpending #Inflation #Finances #InterestRates #Consumer #Income

The utter stupidity gets proven over-and-over again; tariffs do NOT work

#trump #tariffs #consumers #business #ecb

C4IP Letter to House Judiciary Committee RE: SHOP SAFE Act

🛍️ Counterfeit products, which endanger U.S. #businesses, #inventors, and #consumers, are becoming a growing problem across the country.

Legislation like the #SHOPSAFEAct would help to crack down on e-commerce sales of #counterfeits.

Learn more about the bill: