Retailers caught red-handed using Trump's tariffs as cover for price gouging

[Rogue AI]

Fascist seek to control the economy and here you are demanding that retailers not seek profit.

You’re not a capitalist. Are you a communist now?

Now liberals oppose consumer protections? No wonder you lost the working class. All you loons have left are degenerates, illegal aliens, and woke racists. Good luck in 2026.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

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It's obvious that you have no idea how costs of business and prices work.
In retail all items purchased from wholesalers are shipped FOB.
The cost of Rent, lighting, heating, and employees is all taken into consideration when pricing items.
Standard practice in retail. is the item purchased from the wholesaler is put for sale ay 2.3 to 2.5 times the cost. Then end profit normally comes to approximately 3 to 8% after cost.

Yes I do know that........when retailers buy widgets at .50 each then sell for $1......that .50 is then used to pay their bills and anything left is profit.

But when they raise their price of widgets from $1 to $1.50 based solely on POSSIBLE tariffs.......that's price gouging and is all extra profit to line their pockets.

 

[Marener]

Now liberals oppose consumer protections? No wonder you lost the working class. All you loons have left are degenerates, illegal aliens, and woke racists. Good luck in 2026.

Consumer protections? You’re talking about price controls now. Like in Venezuela.

That’s what you think working class want? MAGA railed against it when Harris suggested a very limited type of price controls.

 

[Rogue AI]

Consumer protections? You’re talking about price controls now. Like in Venezuela.

That’s what you think working class want? MAGA railed against it when Harris suggested a very limited type of price controls.

Price gauging is covered in consumer protections. So are many other items. It is a deceptive tactic. Educate yourself.

 

[drudge X]

Maybe they do......it's not something I've argued so again.............

Walmart and all retailers will be affected.

Consumer protections? You’re talking about price controls now. Like in Venezuela.

That’s what you think working class want? MAGA railed against it when Harris suggested a very limited type of price controls.

So you want workers to earn more through legislation and at the same time, want manufacturers to charge whatever they want without any oversight?

 

[Marener]

Price gauging is covered in consumer protections. So are many other items. It is a deceptive tactic. Educate yourself.

You’re pulling this out of your ass.

Consumer protections in this country are extremely weak and price gouging is almost never illegal outside of declared emergencies with limited resources.

Nothing deceptive about setting your own prices. Don’t like it? Go somewhere else.

Do you not remember the wailing and moaning about price controls when Harris suggested it? Probably not. MAGA doesn’t remember anything more than a few weeks ago.

 

[Dekster]

Raising prices on goods not affected is not necessarily gouging. They could be trying to spread added costs over several products to lessen their impact on affected products, and the unaffected products could be costing them more because their suppliers are jacking up prices. Time will tell when their financials come out.

 

[Marener]

Walmart and all retailers will be affected.


So you want workers to earn more through legislation and at the same time, want manufacturers to charge whatever they want without any oversight?

Of course not. We need the government to set prices for the workers. The economy would be better if it’s more centrally planned.

Right?

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

I recall reading weeks ago that scumbags such as Walmart were raising prices literally in anticipation of tariffs.

It’s just sleazy price gouging for a number of retailers.

Retailers caught red-handed using Trump's tariffs as cover for price gouging

Retailers exploit tariffs to justify price hikes on products not affected by trade policies, contradicting Trump's America First agenda to lower consumer costs

www.foxnews.com

In recent weeks, headlines have been filled with warnings from major retailers about impending price hikes due to tariffs reinstated by President Donald Trump. Big Box stores like Walmart and Target have been quick to suggest that tariffs on imported goods, particularly from China, have left them with no choice but to raise prices for American families.

Let’s be clear, these decisions are more about raising profit margins and going against Trump’s agenda to bring costs down for Americans than responding to any actual economic pressure.

Like everything else with the left wing morons way overblown ..... In that frantic millions are gonna die kinda way.
I'm calling ice on the illustratior

 

[drudge X]

Of course not. We need the government to set prices for the workers. The economy would be better if it’s more centrally planned.

Right?

You believe some kid who have or haven't graduated high school working the cash register should earn as much or close to what a district manager of McDonald's earns?

That's what Democrats believe. Leftists in LA want $30 minimum wage. I can tell you they will price themselves out of the market.

 

[drudge X]

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Like everything else with the left wing morons way overblown ..... In that frantic millions are gonna die kinda way.
I'm calling ice on the illustratior

Their claim was a shit show as with lamedick self declared experts telling us the economy will crash if Trump increases tariffs. Prices haven't gone up much. Funny thing is leftists didn't protest the cost of an one mail this time.

 

[Crepitus]

I recall reading weeks ago that scumbags such as Walmart were raising prices literally in anticipation of tariffs.

It’s just sleazy price gouging for a number of retailers.

Retailers caught red-handed using Trump's tariffs as cover for price gouging

Retailers exploit tariffs to justify price hikes on products not affected by trade policies, contradicting Trump's America First agenda to lower consumer costs

www.foxnews.com

In recent weeks, headlines have been filled with warnings from major retailers about impending price hikes due to tariffs reinstated by President Donald Trump. Big Box stores like Walmart and Target have been quick to suggest that tariffs on imported goods, particularly from China, have left them with no choice but to raise prices for American families.

Let’s be clear, these decisions are more about raising profit margins and going against Trump’s agenda to bring costs down for Americans than responding to any actual economic pressure.

Didn't you poo-hoo it when people did the same during COVID?

 

[TimFitz]

I recall reading weeks ago that scumbags such as Walmart were raising prices literally in anticipation of tariffs.

It’s just sleazy price gouging for a number of retailers.

Retailers caught red-handed using Trump's tariffs as cover for price gouging

Retailers exploit tariffs to justify price hikes on products not affected by trade policies, contradicting Trump's America First agenda to lower consumer costs

www.foxnews.com

In recent weeks, headlines have been filled with warnings from major retailers about impending price hikes due to tariffs reinstated by President Donald Trump. Big Box stores like Walmart and Target have been quick to suggest that tariffs on imported goods, particularly from China, have left them with no choice but to raise prices for American families.

Let’s be clear, these decisions are more about raising profit margins and going against Trump’s agenda to bring costs down for Americans than responding to any actual economic pressure.

A Trump excusing editorial with no examples or evidence of any kind.

 

[TimFitz]

Their claim was a shit show as with lamedick self declared experts telling us the economy will crash if Trump increases tariffs. Prices haven't gone up much. Funny thing is leftists didn't protest the cost of an one mail this time.

That was what everyone outside Trumpworld was saying before your fuhrer chickened out.

Still, the 10% tarrif remains, and the first goods and components subject to it are just beginning to reach our shores.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Let’s be clear, these decisions are more about raising profit margins and going against Trump’s agenda to bring costs down for Americans than responding to any actual economic pressure.

Don't like it....don't buy it.

That's me.

There are far to many Americans who have no clue about wise spending.

 

[HikerGuy83]

you can't bring costs down by adding additional costs.

Unless you have huge margins.

Seems we allow places to operate with them.......

Or so you guys keep telling us.

 

[HikerGuy83]

I am waiting for prices to reduce. We know what you did. The ugliness and the people who suffered with the inflation. Gasoline needs to come down.

I do some of the grocery shopping.

I've seen prices on some items come down.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Once they’re up they don’t come back down.

Deal with it.

Not totally true.

I've seen them come down on three things I can think of off the top of my head.

A soft drink I buy just dropped the price for a 64 oz bottle by about 20% (not a sale). That was the pre-tarriff price.
Lunch meats that I buy have come down by about 12%.
Milk is as cheap as I can ever recall. I don't buy it much.....but that is my observation.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Spreading out the tariff hikes from goods bought from one nation with high tariffs to all the goods in the store they import, is a common retail practice if the tariff price hikes are too large for any single....normally best selling item.

Linky?

 

[task0778]

In recent weeks, headlines have been filled with warnings from major retailers about impending price hikes due to tariffs reinstated by President Donald Trump. Big Box stores like Walmart and Target have been quick to suggest that tariffs on imported goods, particularly from China, have left them with no choice but to raise prices for American families.

Let’s be clear, these decisions are more about raising profit margins and going against Trump’s agenda to bring costs down for Americans than responding to any actual economic pressure.

Yet, many corporations are using tariffs as a convenient scapegoat to raise prices across the board, even on products not impacted by new trade policies. A recent Federal Reserve report found that retailers have increased prices on non-tariffed items, falsely implying that across-the-board cost pressures are tariff-driven.

When you increase taxes or tariffs (same thing in reality) you have increased the cost to supply something and that is an economic pressure to raise the price to sell it if you want to maintain your profit margin. The overwhelming majority of economists know this. How much to raise the price of anything is a business decision that the gov't should play no part in, whether the item in question was imported or not. Whether a business is going for or against Trump's agenda is entirely their prerogative. Companies are in business to maximize profit, not to help or hinder a politician's agenda. They are not obliged to eat the loss of profit; they may elect to do so but it should be their choice. And if they raise the price then it is the consumers will ecide whether or not to pay it.

There are a number of ways to offset the higher tax/tariff on something is by raising it's price, but any business has the right to raise the price of something else if it makes economic sense to do so. Instead of raising the price of the imported item by 10%, they might only raise it by 5% and raise the price of something else that wasn't tariffed by 5% or whatever.