This winter has been wrought with anxiety for consumers, who are facing higher costs of heating their homes due to a myriad of factors. “We’re paying more money to get cold,” said one.
It is too early to tell just how much economic uncertainty will affect overall holiday spending, but it has changed the way people are approaching spending and gift-giving.
Twenty small-business owners — all of whom are people of color, many of them women — set up shop in refurbished shipping containers. John Fetterman also stopped by briefly. It’s a first for Philly.
“It’s a rare-enough thing that I’m willing to go all in on this,” said one fan
who spent more than $300 for a single standing-room-only ticket for Sunday’s
game.