{
  "id": 19476130,
  "title": "Retailers Face a Spending Squeeze Beyond Struggling Households",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/retailers-face-a-spending-squeeze-beyond-struggling-households",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-11T09:01:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/consumer-insights/2026/retailers-face-a-spending-squeeze-beyond-struggling-households/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Consumers who lived paycheck to paycheck and kept up with their bills bought from an average of 1.9 discretionary categories over the previous year. That put them closer to consumers who struggled to pay bills, who bought from 1.6 categories, than to those who didn’t live paycheck to paycheck, who bought from 2.5. The two […] The post Retailers Face a Spending Squeeze Beyond Struggling Households…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}