Consumer spending remains largely stable as inflation rises, but a mix of pent-up demand from COVID-19 and diverse behavior among people with different income levels is complicating the deeper picture.
“Nobody has any consensus on this, but the big shape [to consider] here has been COVID,” Derek Stubbs, Senior Director Analyst at insights provider Gartner, explained on a webinar entitled ‘Top Inflation Concerns for 2022 and Beyond’.
“You can’t turn off the global economy, supply chains included, and then turn it back on with all of the money that people weren’t spending, and all of that pent-up demand, and [not...