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A shopper carries a Christmas bag at a holiday market featuring artisans from around the world in New York’s Bryant Park. Eduardo Munoz/ReutersAmerica’s biggest retailers have discovered that the consumer is far from dead.
For all the hand-wringing over tariffs and a wobbling economy, shoppers are spending where they perceive value as evidenced by strong recent financial results from Walmart, Gap, T.J. Maxx TJX -0.95%decrease; red down pointing triangle parent TJX and other chains.
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