Walmart to Increase Prices ‘On a Week-to-Week Basis’ Due to Trump Tariffs: Report
Walmart to Increase Prices ‘On a Week-to-Week Basis’ Due to Trump Tariffs: Report
Are we getting close enough yet to the hyperinflation stage of Nazi Germany for experts to consider this an issue?
Not quite yet, but as Trump increases his grip on the Federal Reserve, which should reach a tipping point when he appoints a new Chairman in May of 2026, you can bet 100% that monetary policy will hyperinflation on a level never before seen in the U.S.. Expect >50% annual inflation level.
There never was a hyperinflation in Nazi Germany. You are thinking about early 1920s Germany.
I worded my comment poorly. I'm including the rise of the Nazi party as a stage of Nazi Germany. I find the reaction to hyperinflation just as integral as the Beer Hall Putsch (which I often compare to J6) to the existence of Nazi Germany.
I think Trumpler is trying to check all the same boxes and isn't particular about the order.
That was the Weimar Republic.
But Trump told me that they won’t do this and he’s watching them!! How could they go against daddy Trump! 🤣
They need to eat that cost! That's what their stockholders want! It's what's best for business AND consumers 🙄
Walmart needs to eat my dick.
Here it comes.
Walmart, the Walton family billionaires, publically blaming Trump's tariffs doesn't leave much room for Trump, MAGA, or Fox to shift the blame. I suppose they'll still try, but I think even MAGA will understand the truth, though they may not admit it.
One of my best friends voted Trump, and I have tried like 3x now explaining to him how HE PAYS MORE NOW FOR GOODS because of the tariffs and I think I'm finally getting through to him. But he somehow keeps thinking it's a net positive 😭 this is what disposable income does to a MF I swear /s
Might wanna consider a new best friend set. If these people haven't come around yet they just aren't going to.
You'd be surprised the level of cognitive dissadence.
you're assuming they look for info about reality anywhere but fox news and truth social
Hey! wanna play a fun game? find a few items in walmart and take note of their price, then take note of the new tariff price, now the fun part, after the tariffs are over see if the price goes back to the pre tariff price (be fair adjust for inflation) .
Spoiler if the items still sell at the tariff price they will only go down a fraction of the tariff increase.
If they weren't cowards, they'd add how much is added to the cost due to the tariffs on the price tag.
Easier to get those record profits without the transparency...
Then they couldn't pad the prices with extra grifting, or keep the prices inflated after TACO caves.
No no no... you don't get it. Walmart isn't cowards.
They funded Project 2025. This is EXACTLY what they want.
"Eat the tariffs" - As if companies like Walmart would love to make less profits just to please politics. Heck, they usually pay politicians to help them make more profits!
Wondering how much more of my life I'm going to have to live watching our society become less stable every single time Republicans gain control before Americans put 2 and 2 together.
Based on the last 10 years, I'm assuming it just isn't going to happen.
based on 45 years you are likely correct.
If they want to fix this, they should put a "Trump did that!" sticker by the new prices.
In case anyone was interested in where to find such stickers .... (Scroll about halfway down if you don't wanna enjoy the ride to find this one specifically) https://www.equalityink.com/product-page/trump-i-did-that-big-sticker-pack-100-pcs
Oh they want to price gouge now that everyone is excited for the radioactive shrimp
This is BIDENS fault that TRUMP imposed Tariffs that caused our Prices to SOAR!
Might have been that Biden69 guy.
THEY BETTER NOT! I'LL BE WATCHING AND LET'S JUST SAY THAT THEY WON'T APPRECIATE A CALL FROM ME (BUT IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THEY'LL TAKE IT)! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Get your "I did that!" stickers ready
Get your guillotines ready.
They also jack up their local prices based on need.
When the flood hit Texas, a 5gal water cost 17$.
Two weeks later, back to the normal price of 7.99$
I just can't accept that employee owned grocery stores like WinCo are somehow keeping prices down but big grocery stores like Kroger are just skyrocketing.
Prices on many items are literally 200% the cost of the same exact item at WinCo.
They don't pay their employees more so where is that extra 100% profit going?
Employee owned stores have a massive competitive advantage over corporate owned stores.
They have no shareholders.
Corporate stores need to show consistent growth in profits, not simply consistent profits.
Employee owned stores can at least get by without making more profits year after year, as long as they make enough to pay themselves and keep up with maintenance.
Employee owned stores can even get by with exact 0 profits, since the employees would've already gotten their fair share in the form of their salary.
“Rolling up prices”
Honestly, this might be the one company the Trump administration cant silence over this. Dear god, we are all depending on Walmart to stop him.
What do they mean "on a week to week basis"? We've been shown, based on their television adverts in the last decade, that the little yellow price ball does that all the time. Were those commercials fake news?! /s
Cool I'll just shop literally anywhere the fuck else.
Yeah because all the other stores don't have the same problems... 👌
Lol😂 like I'm gonna shop at anything other than a family owned, mom and pop shop.
If I could I'd stop buying anything at all but that's a bit unrealistic.
At least there will be lots of new minimum wage jobs for those that have to re-price all the inventory on a weekly basis.
Most stores I go to nowadays have those electronic price tags that can be changed en masse by a corporate drone somewhere from far away. Scary.
There is a local organic grocery store a block away that I’ve stopped at for basics here and there and nothing else really due to it being more expensive, but their prices haven’t changed so now it has become the cheaper option for most things. Check out your local organic grocery stores.
Yeah it's also like this is an entirely manufactured thing.
M&Ms used to be pretty expensive but their prices haven't risen as much as the grocery stores have and now they are comparable. Sill a bit more expensive, but the quality is way better.
It’s earning season, the numbers are in, and at the end of the day, the execs are more afraid of Wall Street than Trump.
Many more price are finally going to start reflecting tariffs in the states. The big companies are no longer holding back.
Stopped going to Walmart because prices were comparable everywhere else. Or, the price was slightly lower but the quality was garbage.
I remember back about a decade ago, I was buying kitchen stuff, getting ready for moving out of home for the 2nd time. I had gotten a few things from one of the specialty stores but was with my partner at the time at a walmart (which I hated already and wouldn't have been there on my own) and decided to hold my nose and grab some other things we still needed while there.
Only when I looked at the prices, they weren't any better than the specialty place. Some things were even worse.
I realized they probably just advertised some loss leaders to get people in and then their prices for everything else were normal or high.
Nice! Is MAGA happening yet?
🤡
I don’t advocate stealing in general but if it’s Walmart and you’re not using violence against the employees I ain’t mad atcha
Grab the pitchforks and torches, if you can afford them...
The Walmart in my town is weird as fuck because it barely has any food in it. Like MAYBE 10% of their floorspace is foodstuffs. And it used to be okay because there was an employee-owned grocery store in town. Well, that grocery store chain apparently got bought out recently, and not only are they raising their prices faster than Walmart, they also can't keep the shelves stocked because the people doing the ordering don't work in the stores. I'm actually thinking I might have to start driving an hour to the nearest WinCo if prices keep skyrocketing like this.
As kids, my mom used to send us to the corner store (literally the opposite corner). you Waited in line and when your turn came up you would ask for 1kg of sugar or whatever. If you forgot you had to wait on the side. The guy at the counter owned the store and he would go get you a Kg of sugar in a bag from a bigger sack or a barrel. He would weigh it for you. Then he would calculate how much it was based on his own price per kg.
Just saying, things could get a heck of a lot worse than having to ask the teller for condoms and a razor pack.
you Waited in line
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fascists will blame it on biden and mexicans, and stained-wifebeater-wearing bumpkin yokel walmart shoppers will be parroting it before the fox news ticker even scrolls to the end of the sentence
AND they'll continue to shop there
Maybe. But not everyone who voted for Trump is a fascist. There are enough voters on the edge who really did vote for lowered cost of living, after four years of everything getting more and more expensive under Biden. Those voters can be won over, and this is really going to slap them in the face.
Honestly, I hope it rips their fucking faces off. Trump showed who he was during his first term, and it took a "fuck everyone else, gimme what I want" mentality to vote in favor of his second term. As a consequence, U.S. democracy is effectively over and everyone is much worse off for it. The leopards have been feasting, and it's about to get much, much worse.
I love how, with no ability figure out things like "inflation", or "pandemic killing supply chains means even more inflation", they're left with "Brandon took mah terlet papar".
I lump the "it's Joe's fault because we weren't told by Trump any other ideas" people in with the rest of 'em. They test-drove the circus once already so they knew better.
Then those people were fucking idiots. Things were shit under Trump 1.0 with the inflation starting under him, it continued with Biden who was trying to keep an economy from collapsing after the Trump idiocy with a pandemic, so brought back in Trump 2.0 to finish the job of wrecking the economy.
Maybe in 2016. But there's no excuse for 2024.
If you see a table with 9 Nazis, and you go sit with them, then you've got a table with 10 Nazis.