https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/04/29/california-consumer-confidence-falls-to-lowest-since-december-2020/

California consumers haven’t been this skittish since the pandemic era’s business restrictions over four years ago.

My trusty spreadsheet, when looking at April’s results for the Conference Board’s consumer confidence indexes, found statewide optimism down 31% since October, just before Election Day. This is the largest decline among the eight states tracked by these monthly measurements that are derived from a polling of shoppers.