Consumer sentiment · TweetDeck monitor

Consumer sentiment across the pilot region

Four live columns of consumer signal — Beirut retail, Tripoli working-class index, Bekaa agriculture, and diaspora confidence. Treat as illustrative structure; wire live ingestion in production.

Beirut — Consumer mood
Daily merchant surveys, informal FX desks
5
HA
Hamra Retail Pulse
@hamra_pulse · 12m
positive

Footfall on Hamra +4.3% week-on-week. Merchants say small baskets, cash-only, but first positive month since Nov.

#retail
GR
Grocer Panel — Achrafieh
@grocer_panel · 1h
negative

Imported-goods pricing still volatile — two SKUs repriced this morning. Households trading down on cooking oil and dairy.

#cpi
IN
Informal FX — Mar Elias
@fx_street_bey · 2h
neutral

Curb rate 89,200 / 89,700. Low depth. No big flows. Spread narrower than last Thursday.

#fx
RE
Restaurant Survey LB
@rest_survey_lb · 3h
negative

Weekend covers down 11%. Operators attribute to uncertainty narrative around border incidents, not pricing.

#services
RE
Remittance Desk
@remit_desk · 5h
neutral

Weekly Western Union inflows flat; OMT slightly up. Diaspora holiday season effect expected next week.

#inflows
Tripoli — Working-class index
Fuel, bread, and labor day-rate tracker
4
FU
Fuel Queue Tracker
@fuelq_tripoli · 30m
negative

Queues at three stations on the corniche — 18, 26, 41 cars. No reported scarcity, but anticipatory hoarding back.

#fuel
BR
Bread Subsidy Watch
@bread_watch · 2h
negative

Standard bundle rose 5.8% at three bakeries. Wheat import funding conversation reopens.

#food
DA
Day-Rate Labor
@labor_rate_lb · 4h
neutral

Construction day-rate unchanged at 700k LBP equivalent. Demand weak outside Dahr el-Ain.

#labor
CO
Coop Pharmacies
@coop_rx · 5h
negative

Chronic-care stockouts: 12 SKUs flagged; 3 critical (insulin pens, amlodipine 10mg, amoxicillin syrup).

#health
Bekaa / Agriculture
Farm-gate prices, water, cross-border trade
3
BE
Bekaa Growers Board
@bekaa_growers · 45m
positive

Potato farm-gate up 12% on Jordan export interest. Transit uncertainty still the biggest margin killer.

#agri
SY
Syrian Border Ops
@border_ops · 2h
neutral

Masnaa throughput normal. Two truck queues reported at dawn — cleared by 08:00.

#trade
WA
Water District Zahle
@water_zahle · 3h
negative

Reservoir inflow 62% of seasonal median. Irrigation schedule tightened.

#water
Diaspora confidence
Investor hotline and remittance survey
3
DI
Diaspora Investor Line
@dil_intl · 1h
neutral

Call volume up 7% on property inquiries. 2/3 still "watch and see". No deposit recovery law still #1 blocker.

#property
MO
Montréal Chamber
@mtl_cc · 4h
negative

Survey: 58% of expat SMEs holding off on formal repatriation pending judicial independence test case.

#sme
AB
Abidjan Merchants
@abj_diaspora · 7h
positive

Quarterly remittance up 3.1%. Informal channels dominant.

#remit