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Why Eurozone Consumers Are Trading Down to Private Labels
Lucas and Luna explore the quiet but powerful shift in Eurozone consumer behavior: shoppers from Paris to Milan are abandoning national brands for private-label products at a record pace. With real GDP growth at 2.1% and sticky service inflation, the episode drills into NielsenIQ data showing private-label market share hitting 34% in Germany and 31% in France—up 3 percentage points year-over-year. They discuss how retailers like Carrefour and Edeka are expanding premium own-brand lines, the profit margin math that makes this structural for investors, and why this trend signals a deeper change…
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