Suddenly Noticing High Retail Prices everywhere

[Anonymous]

I was getting an early start on back to school shopping, and kids sneaker prices are way up from last summer.

[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.

$600!! Wow, I don’t have to worry about money aver again!

[Anonymous]

Grocery prices never go down, so I’m not surprised they stayed high. But utility prices (doubled) and property taxes (assessments) are so high now too in our exurb in Md! I don’t know how anyone living on a fixed income (lots of seniors around us) can manage it. Our wage growth has not been keeping up. It’s not sustainable.

[Anonymous]

Grocery store prices really went higher the last couple of weeks, mainly the sales aren't as good.

Did read where a lot of businesses and manufacturers stocked up and now they are finally running into the tariff increases.

That $600 tax rebate or whatever will barely cover anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grocery store prices really went higher the last couple of weeks, mainly the sales aren't as good.

Did read where a lot of businesses and manufacturers stocked up and now they are finally running into the tariff increases.

That $600 tax rebate or whatever will barely cover anything.

Didn't everyone blame the Covid checks for inflation? Now we are giving $600 checks to make a tiny dent in the self-inflicted inflation that is happening right now...which causes more inflation?

[Anonymous]

It is happening.

https://reason.com/2025/07/29/yes-tariffs-are-raising-prices/

"There have been "relatively quick price responses to tariff announcements," report a group of economists connected to the Harvard Business School's Pricing Lab, which tracks prices throughout the economy. In a paper updated earlier this month, the Harvard economists report that there's been a "cumulative increase in imported goods prices since early March" of approximately 3 percent. The paper relies on data from four major U.S. retail chains."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grocery store prices really went higher the last couple of weeks, mainly the sales aren't as good.

Did read where a lot of businesses and manufacturers stocked up and now they are finally running into the tariff increases.

That $600 tax rebate or whatever will barely cover anything.

Didn't everyone blame the Covid checks for inflation? Now we are giving $600 checks to make a tiny dent in the self-inflicted inflation that is happening right now...which causes more inflation?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Yes, we're fckd. We have a decade of stagflation ahead while the endless wars/COVID money/tariff nonsense comes home to roost. Hopefully things will start to take off in real terms in about 2035.

Until then, this "never been better" S&P 500 is still just trying to catch up with inflation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Absolutely none of this is happening

Trump is making it easier for large corporations to have monopolies

Smaller companies can't hold up against the effect of the tariffs put out by schizo Trump.

[Anonymous]

You're going to notice a lot more in the fall once the Asian and European tariffs kick in. Elections have consequences.

[Anonymous]

Let it rip I say. It’s unfortunate, but this is what a slight majority of people voted for. People are going to have to be dissatisfied to vote for something substantially different. We could be in for a rough couple of decades. however, the elections of Donald Trump have shown there’s real dissatisfaction with the status quo. You can’t ignore that.

[Anonymous]

I am going to start Christmas shopping before everything goes too high! This is nuts.

[Anonymous]

[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.

No, no, no, not every American. Hawley said Trump voters. He intentionally said the money was not for Biden voters.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/sen-josh-hawley-wants-to-exclude-biden-voters-from-600-trump-tariff-rebate-checks/ar-AA1JAEH8?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[Anonymous]

They have been high for a while?! Did you just crawl out of your hole?