What does eat the tariffs mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And Walmart is a very profitable company so while they likely can’t eat the entire tariff they could indeed help absorb some cost. The downside is that then their profits decrease and their share price will decrease. This does matter because people’s retirement savings are in the market.

What we are seeing is the challenge of making central market decisions in a capitalist system.

While I’m all for Walmart absorbing some cost and any true Dem should be as well - a better path would have been if there was greater certainty of which tariffs would stick to allow investors to reallocate their portfolios accordingly.

"What we are seeing is the challenge of making central market decisions in a capitalist system."

Exactly!

Will Trump issue an Executive Order that establishes a price freeze on Walmart, etc.? It's giving Chinese and Russian Communism, Five-Year Plan vibes.

Did Trump truely graduate from Wharton? He is clearly a wannabe commie dictator. Adam Smith is rolling over in his grave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart needs to stop buying Chinese crap

Their whole business model, as well as Target and several other US retailers, is predicated on selling stuff made in China. It has been this way for decades, when US businesses, in search of profits, offshored manufacturing to lower costs.

Yeah, but i still don’t see why we cain’t we do this in Kentucky in our factories. Yall ain’t talking sense. Trump is. Globalist cucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart needs to stop buying Chinese crap

Their whole business model, as well as Target and several other US retailers, is predicated on selling stuff made in China. It has been this way for decades, when US businesses, in search of profits, offshored manufacturing to lower costs.

Yeah, but i still don’t see why we cain’t we do this in Kentucky in our factories. Yall ain’t talking sense. Trump is. Globalist cucks.

Build a factory and try to compete on costs including labor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And Walmart is a very profitable company so while they likely can’t eat the entire tariff they could indeed help absorb some cost. The downside is that then their profits decrease and their share price will decrease. This does matter because people’s retirement savings are in the market.

What we are seeing is the challenge of making central market decisions in a capitalist system.

While I’m all for Walmart absorbing some cost and any true Dem should be as well - a better path would have been if there was greater certainty of which tariffs would stick to allow investors to reallocate their portfolios accordingly.

"What we are seeing is the challenge of making central market decisions in a capitalist system."

Exactly!

Will Trump issue an Executive Order that establishes a price freeze on Walmart, etc.? It's giving Chinese and Russian Communism, Five-Year Plan vibes.

Did Trump truely graduate from Wharton? He is clearly a wannabe commie dictator. Adam Smith is rolling over in his grave.

Unless he is going to use the military to put a gun to the CEO of Walmart's head, he doesn't have the power to do this. we are not China or Russia (yet)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart needs to stop buying Chinese crap

Their whole business model, as well as Target and several other US retailers, is predicated on selling stuff made in China. It has been this way for decades, when US businesses, in search of profits, offshored manufacturing to lower costs.

Yeah, but i still don’t see why we cain’t we do this in Kentucky in our factories. Yall ain’t talking sense. Trump is. Globalist cucks.

Build a factory and try to compete on costs including labor.

I will build a factory! Me and my neighbors will then make goods for Walmart to sell!!! See how easy it works? All these global folks just don’t git it.

[Anonymous]

It also means they would have to cut somewhere else which probably means labor cuts. All of this is bad for the economy.

Congress needs to do their jobs. Useless bunch of turds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart needs to stop buying Chinese crap

Their whole business model, as well as Target and several other US retailers, is predicated on selling stuff made in China. It has been this way for decades, when US businesses, in search of profits, offshored manufacturing to lower costs.

Yeah, but i still don’t see why we cain’t we do this in Kentucky in our factories. Yall ain’t talking sense. Trump is. Globalist cucks.

You have a naive view of economics, but seeing how you voted for the dumpster fire, I’m not exactly surprised

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Walmart needs to stop buying Chinese crap

What's their alternative? With a snap of the finger there will somehow overnight magically be factories in the US to produce everything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart needs to stop buying Chinese crap

Their whole business model, as well as Target and several other US retailers, is predicated on selling stuff made in China. It has been this way for decades, when US businesses, in search of profits, offshored manufacturing to lower costs.

Yeah, but i still don’t see why we cain’t we do this in Kentucky in our factories. Yall ain’t talking sense. Trump is. Globalist cucks.

Build a factory and try to compete on costs including labor.

It takes years and investment to build factories and the only way we could compete on labor cost is through automation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart needs to stop buying Chinese crap

Their whole business model, as well as Target and several other US retailers, is predicated on selling stuff made in China. It has been this way for decades, when US businesses, in search of profits, offshored manufacturing to lower costs.

Yeah, but i still don’t see why we cain’t we do this in Kentucky in our factories. Yall ain’t talking sense. Trump is. Globalist cucks.

Build a factory and try to compete on costs including labor.

In the US these are really bad jobs. Worse than being a Walmart greater or stocker, and those are already bellow the poverty level. We can switch to a third world economy, but then we need to find some wealthy country to buy our goods, because it won't be our workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart needs to stop buying Chinese crap

Their whole business model, as well as Target and several other US retailers, is predicated on selling stuff made in China. It has been this way for decades, when US businesses, in search of profits, offshored manufacturing to lower costs.

Yeah, but i still don’t see why we cain’t we do this in Kentucky in our factories. Yall ain’t talking sense. Trump is. Globalist cucks.

You have a naive view of economics, but seeing how you voted for the dumpster fire, I’m not exactly surprised

Guys, this person is obviously trolling (very poorly).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart needs to stop buying Chinese crap

Their whole business model, as well as Target and several other US retailers, is predicated on selling stuff made in China. It has been this way for decades, when US businesses, in search of profits, offshored manufacturing to lower costs.

Yeah, but i still don’t see why we cain’t we do this in Kentucky in our factories. Yall ain’t talking sense. Trump is. Globalist cucks.

You have a naive view of economics, but seeing how you voted for the dumpster fire, I’m not exactly surprised

Guys, this person is obviously trolling (very poorly).

Hey? What is you saying’? People can’t tell the difference ‘tween reality n satire? You sayin’ people might have that dunnin’ kruger disease???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart needs to stop buying Chinese crap

Their whole business model, as well as Target and several other US retailers, is predicated on selling stuff made in China. It has been this way for decades, when US businesses, in search of profits, offshored manufacturing to lower costs.

Yeah, but i still don’t see why we cain’t we do this in Kentucky in our factories. Yall ain’t talking sense. Trump is. Globalist cucks.

You have a naive view of economics, but seeing how you voted for the dumpster fire, I’m not exactly surprised

PP - you have a deficit in detecting sarcasm and satire. Good Lord.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart needs to stop buying Chinese crap

Their whole business model, as well as Target and several other US retailers, is predicated on selling stuff made in China. It has been this way for decades, when US businesses, in search of profits, offshored manufacturing to lower costs.

Yeah, but i still don’t see why we cain’t we do this in Kentucky in our factories. Yall ain’t talking sense. Trump is. Globalist cucks.

You have a naive view of economics, but seeing how you voted for the dumpster fire, I’m not exactly surprised

Billionaires are not bringing factories back of they can make a profit by just folding the tariffs into the cost of goods. And those prices will never come down.

So many Republican voters, so little understanding of ultra rich people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And Walmart is a very profitable company so while they likely can’t eat the entire tariff they could indeed help absorb some cost. The downside is that then their profits decrease and their share price will decrease. This does matter because people’s retirement savings are in the market.

What we are seeing is the challenge of making central market decisions in a capitalist system.

While I’m all for Walmart absorbing some cost and any true Dem should be as well - a better path would have been if there was greater certainty of which tariffs would stick to allow investors to reallocate their portfolios accordingly.

Why would your version of a “true Dem” be in favor of Walmart absorbing some of the cost of Trump’s tariffs? Most Dems would not be in favor of the tariffs at all — particularly ones as poorly thought out as those have been. While it would stabilize things to know what tariffs will “stick” — the tariffs were stupid and completely unnecessary in the first place. There is no brilliant goal here that Trump’s tariffs address. He wanted to punitively fling his power around, and didn’t care who suffers in the process. That’s it.