小売 sales flat in September as インフレーション takes a bite
NEW YORK (AP) - The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was 不変の in September from August as rising prices for rent and food chipped away at money 利用できる for other things.
小売 sales were flat last month, 負かす／撃墜する from a 改訂するd 0.4% growth in August, the 商務省 報告（する）／憶測d Friday. 小売 sales fell 0.4% in July.
除外するing sales of automobiles and at gas 駅／配置するs, 小売 sales rose 0.3%. 除外するing gas sales, spending was up 0.1%
While the 報告（する）／憶測 showed the resilience of the American 消費者, the 人物／姿／数字s are not adjusted for インフレーション unlike many other 政府 報告（する）／憶測s. In fact, sales at grocery 蓄える／店s rose 0.4%, helped by rising prices in food.
証拠 that the Fed's fight to 冷静な／正味の the economy may be taking 持つ／拘留する can also be seen, 特に with big-ticket items. Sales at 自動車 売買業者s fell 0.4% last month, and shoppers continued to pull 支援する on 器具s, electronics and furniture, all 部類s that did 井戸／弁護士席 during the 早期に part of the pandemic. 商売／仕事 at 消費者 electronics and 器具 蓄える／店s fell 0.8%.
Sales at 着せる／賦与するing 蓄える／店s rose 0.5%, while 商売／仕事 at department 蓄える／店s rose 1.3% That 示すs a solid 支援する-to-school season but adjusted for インフレーション, spending was modest, 分析家s said. 商売／仕事 at restaurants rose 0.5%, while online sales ticked up at the same pace.
FILE - 顧客s 審議 on a television 選択 at Best Buy, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021, in Indianapolis. The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was 不変の in September 2022 from August as rising prices for rent and food chipped away at money 利用できる for other things. 小売 sales were flat last month, 負かす／撃墜する from a 改訂するd. 0.4% growth in August. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, とじ込み／提出する)
"Sales are continuing to grow, but it´s 存在 大部分は driven by pricing, not by people buying more things," said Ken Fenyo of Coresight 研究, a 全世界の 会社／堅い 専攻するing in 小売 and 科学（工学）技術. "For the 消費者, it's a pretty rocky 状況／情勢."
消費者 spending accounts for nearly 70% of U.S. 経済的な activity and Americans have remained mostly resilient even with インフレーション 近づく four-１０年間 highs. Yet 殺到するing prices for everything from mortgages to rent have upped the 苦悩 level. 全体にわたる spending has slowed and 転換d ますます toward necessities like food, while spending on electronics, furniture, new 着せる／賦与するs and other 非，不，無-necessities has faded.
"Even if people are 雇うd and on paper look reasonably comfortable they are not feeling comfortable, and they are very 関心d about what´s to come next," said Joel Rampoldt, a managing director in the 小売 practice at AlixPartners.
インフレーション in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs 加速するd in September, with the cost of 住宅 and other necessities putting more 圧力 on 世帯s, 除去するing 支払う／賃金 伸び（る）s and almost 保証（人）ing that the 連邦の Reserve will keep raising 利益／興味 率s 積極性.
消費者 prices, 除外するing volatile food and energy costs, jumped 6.6% in September from a year ago - the fastest such pace in four １０年間s. And on a month-to-month basis, 核心 prices 殺到するd 0.6% for a second straight time, 反抗するing 期待s for a 減産／沈滞 and signaling that the Fed´s 多重の 率 引き上げ（る）s have yet to 緩和する インフレーション 圧力s. 核心 prices typically 供給する a better picture of underlying price 傾向s.
全体にわたる prices rose 8.2% in September compared with a year earlier, 負かす／撃墜する わずかに from August, the 政府 said Thursday in its 月毎の インフレーション 報告（する）／憶測.
It is a 決定的な period for retailers as they 準備する for the holiday shopping season, which accounts on 普通の／平均（する） for 20% of the 産業´s 年次の sales. インフレーション is already changing shopper habits, 原因（となる）ing them to 貿易（する） 負かす／撃墜する to cheaper 蓄える／店s like Walmart and dollar 蓄える／店s and within aisles, switching to cheaper brands.
Walmart and 的 are の中で others that are 押し進めるing 取引，協定s earlier while others are 申し込む／申し出ing new 財政／金融ing for 顧客s.
Conn´s HomePlus, a Texas furniture and mattress chain that caters to 世帯s at the lower end of the 経済的な 規模, 開始する，打ち上げるd a new layaway program that caters to the 20% to 25% of the chain´s applicants not 適格の to qualify for other 財政／金融ing.
"( Shoppers´) ability to spend on discretionary is more 限られた／立憲的な than it was before, " said CEO Chandra Holt. Sales on things like deluxe coffee 製造者s other 消費者 electronics have faded, she said. .
A slew of holiday 予測（する）s from さまざまな 研究 and 協議するing 会社／堅いs point to a sales 減産／沈滞 from last year, but adjusted for インフレーション, retailers could 現実に see a 拒絶する／低下する. AlixPartners 予報するs holiday sales to be up anywhere from 4% to 7% from last year, which was up 16%, によれば its 計算／見積りs. The 国家の 小売 連合, the nation´s largest 小売 貿易（する） group, hasn´t 解放（する）d its holiday 予測（する）.
Janet Barnes, a 42-year-old College Park, Maryland 居住（者）, says she's 貿易（する）ing 負かす／撃墜する and going to cheaper 蓄える／店s for groceries as prices spike. Instead of Wegmans or Whole Foods, she now 長，率いるs to the 割引 chain Lidl and said she saves about 40% in groceries. Thrift 蓄える／店s have 取って代わるd Nordstrom, she said.
"We are creatures of habit," said Barnes. "But it is not a bad 取引，協定 to see what else is going on - and 実験（する） something else."
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AP 経済的なs Writer Chris Rugaber in Washington 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測.
