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But Nicholas said that Sam’s Club total removal of checkout counters will prove to be beneficial, since its shoppers “are highly receptive to technology that allows them to shop more quickly and engage digitally when visiting its physical stores, regardless of their income group or age,” Grocery Dive reported.

"How each income group fares will depend on which combinations of tax and tariff ideas Trump ultimately pursues, and the higher tariffs could certainly outweigh the benefits of the reduced taxes for lower and middle-income groups," she said in an email.

"It is very hard to extrapolate recent years into any reassessment of longer-term conditions," said Antulio Bomfim, head of global macro for the global fixed income group at Northern Trust Asset Management and a former senior adviser to Powell.

Rothschild said its first-half net income, group share, nearly halved from a year earlier to 128 million euros.

In the past two decades, King County’s middle-class residents moved more frequently than those in any other income group, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco based on credit scores.