Dive Brief: Consumer confidence has bounced back as well as consumer sentiment, with 27% more people feeling optimistic than last summer, according to McKinsey & Company’s latest U.S. consumer pulse survey. For Gen Z, the cohort most worried about employment, 46% felt the economy will rebound in two to three months. Consumers are spending, but still trading down by changing the pack or quantity size of their usual purchases, or by switching retailers in search of lower prices. The survey,...