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PREVIEW - LANCASTER COUNTY RETAIL Colleague Jim McTague in Lancaster County, PA reports that shopping is modest and budget-leaning. More details to follow.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW - LANCASTER COUNTY RETAIL Colleague Jim McTague in Lancaster County, PA reports that shopping is modest and budget-leaning. More details to follow.
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secure. This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague Jim McTaghan, Lancaster County. He watches shopping,

1:03.4

Costco, Walmarts, the grocery stores, the Apple store. What he's reporting is modest, careful budget consciousness.

1:13.3

Here's Jim. Very anecdotal. He also talked to the Apple Store Sentry Guard

1:18.9

about the fact that no one pilferes the Apple Store. He doesn't go after any shoplifter.

1:27.4

He's there to settle disputes that

1:29.3

break out because people are so tense about their technology. Here's Jim McTaghan, the shoppers of

1:36.0

Lancaster County. More of this tonight. Well, Costco was very moderate. And people are back to their pre-Christmas behavior

1:46.0

where they're only buying the essentials.

1:48.9

I see them looking very carefully at the prices

1:53.0

before they put the item in their carts.

1:55.4

So I see people have become much more budget conscious

1:59.6

than they were a few weeks ago.

2:02.6

In Walmart, it was very right traffic and the same consumer behavior.

2:07.6

A few odds and ends.

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