(https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/general-motors-lockheed-martin.html) on defense production, signaling what every manufacturing exec already knows: geopolitical risk stays elevated, defense budgets only expand, and capital allocation flows toward weapons, not appliances. That's a structural headwind for discretionary retailers who are already fighting private label cannibalization and Medicare denial-driven customer trade-downs.

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