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And speaking of saving more,

there's a trend in how people are shopping to save money.

And later, I want to talk about why all those medical ads

that you're seeing online or not necessarily what you think they are.

Right now I want to talk about something that is a clear trend and that is people of income levels

that never really used to walk into a dollar tree or a dollar general are now doing so,

that across income levels, people are really feeling stressed buying everyday consumer goods,

because a lot of the everyday kind of items are the ones you may have noticed

have been popping up in price lately.

And sales of the dollar-oriented stores have been going up, up, up.

But the big shocker is who's coming in, spending a lot more in them,

and that is people of various income levels that are feeling the heat of inflation and tariffs.

And so look at the cars when you go buy or you shop at a dollar tree or dollar general, you'll see

cars of all different years and you'll see luxury cars, you'll see beat up cars, whatever,

because there are times people talk about bargains. There are times people seek them out.

And this is one of those times because having been through six years of an inflationary cycle

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