{"podcast":{"title":"The Modern Retail Podcast","slug":"the-modern-retail-podcast-743360","podcast_index_feed_id":743360,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/DIGI7307234532","website_url":"https://www.modernretail.co/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/fe5016f6-71a1-11e9-a562-5fbdecdd28ed/image/6344782c7c86e87d6c1e362a832780c7.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Digiday Media","episode_count":551,"summary":"The Modern Retail Podcast is a podcast about all the ways the retail industry is changing and modernizing. Every Saturday, senior reporters Gabi Barkho and Melissa Daniels break down the latest retail headlines and interview executives about what it takes to keep up in today’s retail landscape, diving deep into growth strategies, brand autopsies, economic changes and more","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T12:21:10.282589+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-modern-retail-podcast-743360"},"episode":{"title":"The tradeoff economy: Why stressed shoppers are still spending","slug":"the-tradeoff-economy-why-stressed-shoppers-are-still-spending","published_at":"2026-05-09T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-modern-retail-podcast-743360/the-tradeoff-economy-why-stressed-shoppers-are-still-spending","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-modern-retail-podcast-743360","url":"https://www.modernretail.co/podcasts/the-tradeoff-economy-why-stressed-shoppers-are-still-spending/","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/DIGI1617728613.mp3","summary":"For this week's Modern Retail Podcast, co-hosts Gabriela Barkho and Melissa Daniels were joined by Katie Thomas from the Kearney Consumer Institute to discuss how shoppers' financial stress is showing up in their shopping habits. KCI recently released its latest Consumer Stress Index, which monitors 24,000 consumers across 12 countries. It looks not only at consumers' financial picture but also at their stress related to geopolitics and government, innovation and technology, food and the environment, and health and education. What's different this year is that it's not just one factor causing consumers to feel stressed. It's the compounding effect of inflation, geopolitical instability and overall uncertainties. \"Put these two analyses together — historic stress levels and a population that feels starved of joy — and you get a consumer landscape that continues to defy the standard recessionary playbook,\" the report said.","meta_description":"For this week's Modern Retail Podcast, co-hosts Gabriela Barkho and Melissa Daniels were joined by Katie Thomas from the Kearney Consumer Institute to dis…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1921,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-modern-retail-podcast-743360/episodes/the-tradeoff-economy-why-stressed-shoppers-are-still-spending/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-modern-retail-podcast-743360/the-tradeoff-economy-why-stressed-shoppers-are-still-spending.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}