Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:25
Subject: Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Anonymous wrote:This is a breaking story. The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs next to the total price of products on its site.
“This is hostile and political act by Amazon,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing.
As an aside, I was recently adding groceries to my Wegmans app list and a notice popped up on the app after I added one item telling me that it will cost 10% more due to tariffs. This is a great idea and all retail companies should follow suit so that consumers can know what the real impact of the tariffs is.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/white-house-blasts-amazon-over-tariff-cost-report-hostile-and-political-act.html
Leavitt's annoying and should go find a real job in the private sector just like DOGE tells all the feds to do.
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:23
Subject: Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Amazon has already capitulated.
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:23
Subject: Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Anonymous wrote:Bezos will backoff. He's a Trump lackey now.
Bezos can’t afford to back off, he has only 2 options; 1) Show the cause if prince increases 2) Lose his business because prices have suddenly shot up.
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:23
Subject: Re:Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FAFO
It is already back to yesterday's closing prices. Never pay attention to pre-market trading.
It’s still WAY DOWN from yesterday! Yikes!!
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:22
Subject: Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Curious. How much can a retailer say is a tariff versus how much they are tacking on for themselves? Like shipping sometimes.
Some retailers grind the shipping costs into the price and some charge extra for shipping. If Amazon wants to indicate what is added on for the tariff that is good for the consumers to understand.
I’m not suggesting that transparency is bad. I’m just wondering whether retailers input the tariff numbers or if Amazon is entering this. For example, how do we the consumer or Amazon know how much a retailer paid in tariffs? Maybe the retailer bought American OR has plenty of stock in the US pre-tariffs. With shipping, for example, if I see a charge for that, and I see the item price is the same or more than other market retailers, I move on.
The good news for us is that we don’t buy a lot outside of groceries. Groceries are bad enough.
Trump is transparent on what a tariff is on any country, so it isn't that hard for the retailers to be transparent on the costs, since they have to pay it to begine with and are just passing it on to the consumer.
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:19
Subject: Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Curious. How much can a retailer say is a tariff versus how much they are tacking on for themselves? Like shipping sometimes.
Some retailers grind the shipping costs into the price and some charge extra for shipping. If Amazon wants to indicate what is added on for the tariff that is good for the consumers to understand.
I’m not suggesting that transparency is bad. I’m just wondering whether retailers input the tariff numbers or if Amazon is entering this. For example, how do we the consumer or Amazon know how much a retailer paid in tariffs? Maybe the retailer bought American OR has plenty of stock in the US pre-tariffs. With shipping, for example, if I see a charge for that, and I see the item price is the same or more than other market retailers, I move on.
The good news for us is that we don’t buy a lot outside of groceries. Groceries are bad enough.
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:18
Subject: Re:Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Anonymous wrote:FAFO
It is already back to yesterday's closing prices. Never pay attention to pre-market trading.
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:16
Subject: Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is a breaking story. The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs next to the total price of products on its site.
“This is hostile and political act by Amazon,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing.
As an aside, I was recently adding groceries to my Wegmans app list and a notice popped up on the app after I added one item telling me that it will cost 10% more due to tariffs. This is a great idea and all retail companies should follow suit so that consumers can know what the real impact of the tariffs is.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/white-house-blasts-amazon-over-tariff-cost-report-hostile-and-political-act.html
I don't understand why this is hostile? Why doesn't this encourage people to buy products that do not have the tariffs? Was that not the point of the tariffs? Or are they in fact a revenue generating mechanism that has nothing to do with encouraging people to buy American?
Anything that pops the right wing MAGA bubble is hostile.
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:14
Subject: Re:Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
FAFO
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:09
Subject: Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Anonymous wrote:Bezos will backoff. He's a Trump lackey now.
Maybe but look what happened to musk and Tesla. At the rate Tesla is sinking, Bezos will be the richest person in the world instead of musk. Is being a trump lackey good for business or bad for business?
Anonymous
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:07
Subject: Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Anonymous wrote:Curious. How much can a retailer say is a tariff versus how much they are tacking on for themselves? Like shipping sometimes.
Some retailers grind the shipping costs into the price and some charge extra for shipping. If Amazon wants to indicate what is added on for the tariff that is good for the consumers to understand.
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:05
Subject: Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Curious. How much can a retailer say is a tariff versus how much they are tacking on for themselves? Like shipping sometimes.
Anonymous
04/29/2025 10:03
Subject: Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Anonymous wrote:Tariffs are a tax. Online retailers display other taxes as separate line items, so why not tariffs?
+1. The more information the consumer has about where the money is going the better.
Anonymous
04/29/2025 09:59
Subject: Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed
Tariffs are a tax. Online retailers display other taxes as separate line items, so why not tariffs?