Suddenly Noticing High Retail Prices everywhere

[Anonymous]

I have been shopping online and in person recently and noticed huge price jumps on stuff that I have shopped for before. It’s horrifying. Is this the tariffs kicking in? Or is it something else?

For example an item that I want to buy for months is now twice the price at multiple vendors!

[Anonymous]

Same here. I asked a sales guy and he told me that they hiked prices last week in response to tariffs

[Anonymous]

I gather I may notice if we need to make a big ticket replacement. It's hard to pay attention to everyday small retail items.

What's so stupid is that now European and Japanese cars will be much cheaper than American cars because they only have a 15% tariff while US manufacturers have a 50% tariff on steel, aluminum and copper as well as a 35% tariff on parts from Canada and Mexico.

But at least now US cars won't have a tariff in the EU or Japan...where huge gas guzzling SUVs are just so popular (not).

Talk about the easiest deal point to agree...sure, we agree to 0% tariffs on a product where maybe 10 people in the country will buy it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, there was some delay in the tariffs working their way through the supply chain. This is only the beginning. Even if they backtracked immediately, it's been baked in for months now.

[Anonymous]

Lots of companies rushed inventory into the US to beat tariffs back in the early spring. They’ve been drawing down that inventory ever since. It’s eventually going to run out and their only choice will be to pass on the tariffs. This will also cause prices of competing donkey goods to go up since domestic producers won’t have as much price competition. And they may also have higher input costs from tariffs on their inputs.

[Anonymous]

Stop whining. This is what winning looks like.

Senator Hawley is going to send every American $600 from the vast amount of tariff money the US has collected from the losers in other countries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop whining. This is what winning looks like.

Senator Hawley is going to send every American $600 from the vast amount of tariff money the US has collected from the losers in other countries.

So stupid. The point of tariffs was to help bring down the debt not to distribute a measly sum to every American. Tariffs are just a regressive tax on the entire population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop whining. This is what winning looks like.

Senator Hawley is going to send every American $600 from the vast amount of tariff money the US has collected from the losers in other countries.

Hopefully you are being sarcastic. If not, we pay tariffs not other countries.

[Anonymous]

Trump was right about the problem - Americans are losing. When an American kid has no hope of going to a good university like Harvard, no hope of becoming a doctor - and if they become a doctor, they will work the same as if they were in a factory, with little autonomy and relatively low wages - and definitely no hope of working in the US's biggest industry (tech) - we have a problem. When US kids can't hope to buy a house, when we are a capitalist country with very few capitalists - we have a problem.

The problem started with allowing corporate consolidation so that small companies can't hope to compete and is only getting worse. The billionaires at the top of that consolidation aren't having money trickle down - they save it, keeping money from flowing through the economy.

We have the exact same economic policies as Calvin Coolidge did in the 1920s.
1. High tariffs
2. Low taxes on wealthy and corporations
3. Reverse immigration

By 1929, people became too poor to buy the goods the corporations were producing. That led to the Great Depression. These policies did not work then and they won't work now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop whining. This is what winning looks like.

Senator Hawley is going to send every American $600 from the vast amount of tariff money the US has collected from the losers in other countries.

The fine print says it will arrive days after your 5,000 dollar DOGE check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop whining. This is what winning looks like.

Senator Hawley is going to send every American $600 from the vast amount of tariff money the US has collected from the losers in other countries.

The fine print says it will arrive days after your 5,000 dollar DOGE check.

I am donating my tariff check to Trump’s re-election fund. The winnings will be even bigger in his third term!

[Anonymous]

Examples op?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, there was some delay in the tariffs working their way through the supply chain. This is only the beginning. Even if they backtracked immediately, it's been baked in for months now.

Let’s face it. Even we avoided having new tariffs, retailers wouldve hiked prices anyways.

[Anonymous]

I noticed it on Etsy too. A lot of Artisans are outside the US. The prices are way up. I’m priced out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, there was some delay in the tariffs working their way through the supply chain. This is only the beginning. Even if they backtracked immediately, it's been baked in for months now.

Let’s face it. Even we avoided having new tariffs, retailers wouldve hiked prices anyways.

This. Retailers are price gouging and it's been proven time and again, since the egg crisis. It seems in nobody's interest to fight it since corporate greed is so strong (and enriching). Even Kamala vowed to fight it during her election-- but (and I don't say this often) she was in position to DO SOMETHING THEN as VP and the administration did not. Trumps a stainy POS. So I don't think any politician will really tackle this no matter what they say. They like the bribes too much.