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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.
They also jack up their local prices based on need.
When the flood hit Texas, a 5gal water cost 17$.
Two weeks later, back to the normal price of 7.99$
$7.99 for water is ridiculous. Humans literally need it to survive. It should be free.
Like healthcare too, perhaps?
Or, say, housing?
Yeah but then the liberal freeloaders won't have incentive to work /s
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.
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
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.
Yippee!!! 50% increase! So you're saying I should buy all the bread and eggs right now, store them until May of next year, and then I'll be a billionaire, too???
Me in December: this place smells like shit...
That was the Weimar Republic.
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
"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!
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.
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 🙄
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Here it comes.
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.
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
If they weren't cowards, they'd add how much is added to the cost due to the tariffs on the price tag.
Stopped going to Walmart because prices were comparable everywhere else. Or, the price was slightly lower but the quality was garbage.
“Rolling up prices”