![]() The national average for a gallon hit $4.331 on March 11, the highest price on record, according to AAA. It has dropped off to an average of $4.098 as of Tuesday, but that's still a significant increase from the $2.863 average a year ago. In some Northeast and West Coast states, gas prices are even higher. In California, for example, an average gallon of gas rang in at $5.748 as of Tuesday, according to AAA.Ĭonsumers spend about 4% to 6% of their monthly expenses on gas, Kapfidze said. It is more of a burden in low-income households, where the percentage can rise to as much as 20%. Retailers will get fresh clues about how consumers are responding to those prices Thursday morning, when the Commerce Department reports retail sales from March. Retail sales in February fell shy of expectations, signaling that consumers' pace of spending may be slowing down.Įven before the March retail data are released, however, there are growing worries about the state of the consumer. Over the past two weeks, an uncertain economic backdrop has spurred analysts to downgrade some retailers' stocks and upgrade others. The war in Ukraine has injected additional uncertainty about consumer mindset. Some economists have warned about the risk of a recession, even as unemployment remains low and job openings outpace people to fill them.Ĭompanies, such as Macy's, have acknowledged that they will have to compete for discretionary dollars as some consumers decide between buying a new outfit, booking a vacation or going out to dinner. While the higher price at the pump is a burden on consumers, some retailers see an opportunity to seize a larger share of households' budgets. Starting last week, cashiers at Giant Eagle grocery stores began promoting the company's loyalty program at the checkout. The privately held grocer has 200 supermarkets and 270 convenience stores with gas stations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Maryland and West Virginia. ![]() One of the cornerstones of the program is rewards that customers can redeem for dollars off groceries or gas. ![]() To nudge customers to sign up, the grocer is offering 10 cents off each gallon of gas bought from its pumps for the first 90 days, said Justin Weinstein, vice president of customer experience. ![]() It recently waived the expiration date of rewards, too, he said. "Rising fuel prices were on our mind as we made this change," he said. Or maybe try to find a previous version that isn't quite as bad as the new one *smile*.īut this should just work on Chrome.has in the past, anyways.Weinstein said Giant Eagle has noticed gas prices have already changed purchasing patterns. But there are other things going on with the Brave browser, it looks like it just updated and there are other problems. Click this ballon to reload the extension." You click the "ballon", and of course the "ballon" goes away and comes right back again, over and over. This is after having the Brave browser error: "LastPass: Password manager has crashed. When I try to run the "universal installer", my Mac tells me that the installer binary is "damaged" and should not be run.gives me the choice of trashing the installer binary or cancelling out of running it.Īny ideas on how I can get the binary component installed into LastPass extension on Chrome on the Mac? It isn't the worst thing in the world not having it, but I do want to get it installed. I have version 4.46.0 of LastPass on the mac (macOS 10.15.4) for use with the Chrome browser, and have not been able to get the binary component of LastPass installed on the latest version of Chrome (.113). ![]()
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