By Brian O’Connell While the elite downplay talk of a recession, the public are counting coupons. You can tell a lot about the mood of the Great American Consumer simply by tracking the Kroger (KR) – Get Kroger Company (The) Report Digital Coupons Page. That’s exactly what the data analysts at 84.51°, a retail data science firm located in Cincinnati, Ohio, did in the firm’s latest Inflation Special Edition Digest. The team’s survey tracked 400 customers who had shopped at a Kroger in the past three months. “Shopper concern remains more severe when it comes to inflation, compared with COVID,” t…