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

[sealybobo]

bullshit asshole, remove the fking post.

I just got this from my vendor

Please find attached letter regarding the current tariff situation. At this time, the 8.5% surcharge will apply to all products with a few exceptions

Trump SUCKS! And you voted for it dumb ass.

 

[jc456]

Yep. See, the fascists think that private industry is subservient to the nation, and they see Trump as the embodiment of the nation.

well how about that disinformation, your message is a lie it was never stated that way at all. if private companies pass along tariff charges, isn't price gouging at all. They risk alienating their customers for doing so, that's it.

So when industry pursues profits at the expense of Trump, the fascists see it as enterprise working against the nation which must be stamped out.

Well it is enterprise working, just like when governors push state taxes on gallons of gas, we all pay it in that state. Illionois is mine, almost 45 cents, I believe outside CA we are the highest.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

OhPleaseJustQuit doesn't believe you would post that Walmart is price gouging us. Not after last year when you argued they weren't price gouging us. No way you would flip flop that quickly would you?

Or he doesn't believe Walmart is price gouging us. Let's see you explain it to him.

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WalMart is the king of price gouging. I've seen them kill a number of small businesses in small towns too.

And I also don't shop there.





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[task0778]

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WalMart is the king of price gouging. I've seen them kill a number of small businesses in small towns too.

And I also don't shop there.





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Their prices are still lower than most other retailers except sometimes Amazon.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Their prices are still lower than most other retailers except sometimes Amazon.

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Thanks for sharing.


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[debbiedowner]

How surprising ( not), the low IQ component of the dim party are cutting and pasting the fascist™ slogan absent any ability to understand what they cut and paste.

Just low IQ hacks looking for attention.

Seems you're the low IQ magat if you thought businesses would not pass on to you their higher costs. Besides that's what capitalism is all about. Are you one of those magat socialist?

 

[Foxfyre]

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?

If you do not know the difference between free market profit and price gouging, you're not very smart are you.

 

[Marener]

If you do not know the difference between free market profit and price gouging, you're not very smart are you.

Because there’s no objective difference. It’s all just subjective.

MAGA calls it price gouging because it hurts Trump. They called it free market when it hurt Biden.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Too funny. When Biden was President we told you companies were price gouging and you either didn't believe it or didn't care.

Well we don't care either. And like you told us, "what are you going to do about it?" If we said we were going to do something about it you accused us of interfering in the free market. You really are sad/pathetic.

Best *Joe ever tried to blame his high inflation on price gauging. As usual, the useful idiots fell for it.

 

[justoffal]

oh look. The fascists are now against private industry making profits.

Profit is the whole point of corporate business.
However hiding behind the tariffs may actually even be a breakage of Federal trade law.

 

[Marener]

That's not at the expense of Trump...that money is coming out the pockets of American consumers while retailers like Walmart BLAME Trump's tariffs! Things like that need to be exposed so that people can see for themselves who the owners of Walmart care about!

Then don’t shop there, dipshit.

 

[Marener]

Profit is the whole point of corporate business.
However hiding behind the tariffs may actually even be a breakage of Federal trade law.

What law? Hurting Trump politically is not illegal.

Unless you actually want to be fascist.

 

[justoffal]

Too funny. When Biden was President we told you companies were price gouging and you either didn't believe it or didn't care.

Well we don't care either. And like you told us, "what are you going to do about it?" If we said we were going to do something about it you accused us of interfering in the free market. You really are sad/pathetic.

What law? Hurting Trump politically is not illegal.

Unless you actually want to be fascist.

Claiming that the tariffs are responsible for something that the tariffs didn't do is most likely a violation of FTC regulations.

Don't know how you would prove it....
So far I haven't seen any price scaling trends anywhere. The only thing I do see is that grocery prices are still too damn High. But that happened before the tariffs.

 

[Marener]

Claiming that the tariffs are responsible for something that the tariffs didn't do is most likely a violation of FTC regulations.

Don't know how you would prove it....
So far I haven't seen any price scaling trends anywhere. The only thing I do see is that grocery prices are still too damn High. But that happened before the tariffs.

Companies are under no obligation to tell anyone why they’re increasing prices.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Then don’t shop there, dipshit.

I don't...

 

[Marener]

I don't...

So there’s no problem. Why are you in the thread?

 

[Man With A Plan]

Companies are under no obligation to tell anyone why they’re increasing prices.

And the American public is under no obligation to shop at a store that stoops to price gouging them while blaming it on someone else.

 

[Man With A Plan]

So there’s no problem. Why are you in the thread?

Interesting question, Marener. Best answer? If Walmart did indeed price gouge? I'm here to encourage my fellow Americans to boycott their asses out of existence. Happy?

 

[Marener]

And the American public is under no obligation to shop at a store that stoops to price gouging them while blaming it on someone else.

They sure did when this happened under Biden.

 

[Man With A Plan]

They sure did when this happened under Biden.

Rampant inflation happened under Biden, Marener. What does that have to do with price gouging? I know that they tried to blame Supermarkets for the high prices but that dog never did hunt and they rather quickly gave it up when it was pointed out that grocery chains work on about a 3% markup!