{"id":263058,"date":"2026-01-25T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/263058\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:00:18","slug":"at-us-biggest-retail-show-china-question-never-goes-away-for-walmart-costco-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/263058\/","title":{"rendered":"At US\u2019 biggest retail show, China question never goes away for Walmart, Costco and others"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world\u2019s largest retail show held last week in New York saw a mood of measured optimism amid the bustle, cheap swag and canned smiles \u2013 a sense that the worst of last year\u2019s tariff turmoil<\/a> was over and that Chinese goods would continue to fill Walmart and Costco, even if they had to travel through a third country.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel more optimistic for this year,\u201d said Teagan Pollard, an IT expert with TP Industries, which sells vaping equipment from China. \u201cThe economy and tariffs have been rough. But something\u2019s got to break, hopefully in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

The National Retail Federation (NRF) showcase event, held in this nation of shopaholics, saw some 42,000 attendees descend on a space equivalent to five football fields, as corporate booths competed for attention with wine bars, talking robots, couches and extra thick carpeting for clients\u2019 sore feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the beginning of 2025, people were apprehensive about the way tariffs would play out,\u201d said John Martin, a consultant with supply-chain software company Infios. \u201cIn 2026, people have changed their supply chains. So there\u2019s less apprehension.\u201d<\/p>\n

That has put a spotlight on the American consumer, which chugs along through thick and thin, the secret sauce powering the world\u2019s largest economy.<\/p>\n

\"PicturedPictured at NRF 2026: Retail\u2019s Big Show are (from left), Ken Pilot from Ken Pilot Ventures, Sarah Travis from Target, Miguel Almeida from Nordstrom and Frank Bedo from Best Buy. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n

Household consumption accounts for two-thirds of America\u2019s US$31 trillion economy dominated by citizens who gleefully spend every last dollar \u2013 and often more \u2013 thanks to easy credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s largest retail show held last week in New York saw a mood of measured optimism amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3468,125235,8179,2102,72,114,229,6791,113,108054,3024,61,2568,60,2628,4320,10947,3186,6844],"class_list":["post-263058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-amazon","tag-american-consumer","tag-bangladesh","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-costco","tag-economy","tag-el-salvador","tag-greenland","tag-ie","tag-india","tag-ireland","tag-mexico","tag-new-york","tag-target","tag-trump","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}