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Hey, you guys, so recent data is finding that fewer people are shopping in store than they were just 20 years ago.

But studies are also finding that consumers are spending more money than ever before.

So how can both of these things be true?

Well, that's what we're going to talk about today.

And stay tuned because I'm also sharing five tips to keep you under budget while most of the country is falling for all these consumer

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New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that stores are seeing significantly less

traffic than just a few decades ago.

But the price of daily essentials has gone up,

and we all know this because we're feeling the pain, right? Just because we're not in-person

shopping, even if we're doing it online, man, things are getting more and more expensive.

And the reason that both of these things are true at the same time is because online

shopping has just

taken over right i mean we don't go into actual stores anymore because it's all at our fingertips

i mean literally from from amazon to instacart to online bills and baking i mean we are spending

hundreds every single week without even leaving our house. I mean, it is wild how much

you can do, how much shopping, how much buying, just your phone. I'm like, even our pizza place

has an app. So it's like you hit the app, you hit the app pay, you pay it with a literally two

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