A capital outlay package includes some big-ticket items for Albuquerque, but New Mexico Gov. Michelle…

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And while the team’s main big-ticket (relatively speaking, at $40 million over three years) addition last offseason, Zach Eflin, has been more human, he still was off to a 2-0 start before landing on the IL with back tightness.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/who-are-the-low-budget-rays-making-baseball-history/

As China grapples with a slowing domestic economy, it may become more difficult for Chinese entities to keep shelling out funding for big-ticket overseas projects.

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As well as the big-ticket machinery, McCullagh Machinery has other areas that have seen growth.

Source: https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/23991476.fermanagh-machinery-business-turnover-skyrockets-6-million/?ref=rss

At the same time, consumers are struggling with rising interest rates, meaning their big-ticket purchases are more expensive.

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-small-business-holiday-shopping-20231129-xaynayhd5zeo7fo33cjeut7nre-story.html

But that height comes with tempestuous weather, which can often obscure the view and offers little in the way of shelter and food for the kind of big-ticket animals viewers crave.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/09/12/they-logged-on-to-watch-the-famous-fat-brown-bears-they-saved-a-hikers-life-instead/

For two decades, countries “were getting to know China as the kind of benevolent financier of big-ticket infrastructure,” said Bradley Parks, the executive director of the AidData research group at William & Mary.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/21/china-debt-diplomacy-belt-and-road-initiative-economy-infrastructure-development/

He has been his country’s most regular personnel in the last two years, a two-year churn partly in pursuit of the perfect combination and partly in a bid to keep their front-line options fit and fresh for big-ticket games.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/should-shardul-thakur-be-in-the-playing-eleven-in-the-odi-world-cup-8873693/

In the conference call, the company noted that big-ticket transactions of more than $1000 were down 5.2% compared to Q3 last year.

Source: https://www.forexlive.com/news/what-home-depot-is-seeing-in-the-us-consumer-20231114/

Lionsgate’s big-ticket franchise, John Wick starring global icon Keanu Reeves, is back with a new chapter!

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Same store sales fell -4.3% from year ago levels (HD: -4.6%), and, again, like Home Depot, big-ticket items were off sharply.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2023/05/26/policy-lags-are-real--inflations-days-are-numbered/

Similarly, the consumer sentiment on buying big-ticket items for the next 12 months remained pessimistic at -75.2 percent from -74.9 percent previously.

Source: https://business.inquirer.net/416532/construction-activities-in-ph-slowed-in-q2

Toss in if you are a season ticket holder and get those big-ticket games!

Source: https://coosavalleynews.com/2023/12/the-not-so-glory-days-of-college-football-in-the-mind-of-tony-potts/

U.S. retail sales fell more than expected in March as consumers cut back on purchases of motor vehicles and other big-ticket items, suggesting that the economy was losing steam at the end of the first quarter because of higher interest rates.

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/c9e66cb75337c0cf?ref=ff

We make a smaller percentage, more dollars per unit, of course, but a smaller percentage on big-ticket electronics.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4584129-costco-wholesale-corporation-cost-q2-2023-earnings-call-transcript?source=feed_all_articles