CEO Chris Diorio sees an improving situation, though it's early to declare the retail downturn over. Analyst James Ricchiuti predicts over 20% growth in 2025, with retail market demand normalizing by early 2024.

Although food prices rise 11.4% over the past one year, with egg price up 39.8%, flour up 23.3% and even milk up 17% (*1, *2), it does not stop the U.S. economy from getting stronger.
Also, the unemployment rate went down to 3.5% in Sep 2022 and payrolls rise by 263,000, beating the average estimates of 250,000 (*3).
Besides higher food inflation and low unemployment, U.S. also sees private payrolls rose by 208,000, better than the 200,000 forecas...

Although rare video showing Russia moving equipment belonging to a nuclear weapons unit (*1), the White House believes that Russia is not preparing to use nuclear weapons (*2).
Next, we have North Korea conducts long-range missile test over Japan (*3) and the possibility of a nuclear response after Ukraine captured a key town (*4).
Thus, it may be great that every country has nuclear weapons so that nuclear war...