**Kraft Heinz CEO said it directly.** ๐ฏ
*"Consumers are literally running out of money."*
This isn't an analyst guess.
This is real sales data from millions of homes. โก
Four years of food inflation.
Four years of volume losses. ๐ฃ
People didn't stop eating.
They stopped affording. ๐ฏ
Industry spent two years cutting prices
and shrinking packages
just to get people buying again.
That recovery took two years.
It's not finished yet. ๐
Now the Iran war threatens
another wave of food inflation
before households recovered from the last one. ๐
Fertilizer prices up 40%.
Energy costs rising.
Supply chains still fragile. ๐ฃ
S&P at all time highs.
Kraft Heinz CEO saying consumers
are literally out of money. ๐ฏ
Both true. Same country. Same week.
The economy that looks strong in data
doesn't feel strong at the grocery store. ๐
Corporate earnings beat estimates.
Families skip meals to make rent.
That gap is the most important
economic story nobody is leading with. ๐
When consumers run out of money โ
spending drops.
Earnings follow.
Markets eventually catch up. ๐
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