Walmart quietly jacks up prices despite Trump's demand for retailer to eat the tariffs

[Chrishaune]

Walmart is fighting for Americans.
Tariffs are imposed on Americans, not the foreign country
It's a tax on us, I fail to understand why people want to argue for increases on taxes, but the maga are economically illiterate compounded by xenophobic
Smh

They are not

This is not Sam Walton's Wal-Mart

 

[David_TheMan]

They are not

This is not Sam Walton's Wal-Mart

They are indeed.
Sam Walton's Walmart is no different than today's.
Get the lowest price to customers with no haggling. Walmart continues to do so.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Both siders busy buttering up salty crackers cuz the price of butter biscuits is up

These are the times. @TripleAgent keep your head up. Must be hard walking past the biscuit isle right now

 

[Chrishaune]

They are indeed.
Sam Walton's Walmart is no different than today's.
Get the lowest price to customers with no haggling. Walmart continues to do so.

Just like today's Chick-fil-A is not Mr. Cathy's ...

These companies don't care about anything but keeping their money. Not helping everyday people. Falling prices don't exist anymore at Wal-Mart

 

[TripleAgent]

In a weird way though I think this will actually lead to lasting change. The status quo was what the democrats offered and it was rejected. Progressives who want to do big things like overturn citizens united, restore the marginal tax rate to what it was during America's Golden age, protect peoples data and raise minimum wage will be far more popular than "here are some tax credits you can apply for"

People got a glimpse of what the government can actually do for people when they get off their asses back in 2020 and 2021. People want more of that and they can have it if enough politicians stop being afraid of billionaires and start taxing them. What are they going to do? Run somewhere else and inflate the housing prices and crush small businesses there? They're fukking parasites who don't contribute to society more than your friends and family members who work 9-5 jobs. 2020 exposed the charade. We saw who is actually important. It's not these CEOs who have meetings all day and fire staff before dipping with more money in their account than all the employees in their office. It's the nurses, delivery drivers, care aids, cooks, teachers, pharmacists, cleaners, day laborers etc. That keep this country going.

The first person to promise these people higher wages, better job security, and the means for upper mobility(free education, student loan forgiveness) will get serious motion. If they win these people over there is more than enough for them to dominate in an election. If they enact their agenda instead of coming up with bullshyt excuses like the senate parliamentarian or a colleague breaking ranks, they're locked in for a second term. Democrats kept focusing on appealing to your supervisors instead of appealing to YOU. If they're offering you free childcare, free healthcare, free schooling, housing subsidies, and protecting the sanctity of your vote by kicking big money out of politics you have reasons to vote FOR them. You're not voting out of fear of what the right will do, you're voting because you've been given a vision of the future that puts you first.

Well said. Pretty much what both siders were aiming for.

 

[David_TheMan]

Just like today's Chick-fil-A is not Mr. Cathy's ...

These companies don't care about anything but keeping their money. Not helping everyday people. Falling prices don't exist anymore at Wal-Mart

They never cared about anything but money.
They get money by providing customers service and selection that makes them want to come back.

Walmart typically has the lowest prices along with Amazon. If you study how Walmart structures vendors you will see they do everything they can to drive vendor prices low so they can offer customers the lowest prices.

Amazon does the same with their Amazon house brand, same with Costco, Aldi's, and etc

If you are mad about prices you have to look at the currency and the inflation. That is not wal marts fault that the politicians in Washington who inflate the currency so they can pay for wars, social entitlements, and etc without raising taxes or having to pay for it directly right now.

 

[Chrishaune]

They never cared about anything but money.
They get money by providing customers service and selection that makes them want to come back.

Walmart typically has the lowest prices along with Amazon. If you study how Walmart structures vendors you will see they do everything they can to drive vendor prices low so they can offer customers the lowest prices.

Amazon does the same with their Amazon house brand, same with Costco, Aldi's, and etc

If you are mad about prices you have to look at the currency and the inflation. That is not wal marts fault that the politicians in Washington who inflate the currency so they can pay for wars, social entitlements, and etc without raising taxes or having to pay for it directly right now.

Breh I grew up with Wal-Mart in the 90s. Falling prices doesn't exist anymore. It's not the same company

 

[David_TheMan]

Breh I grew up with Wal-Mart in the 90s. Falling prices doesn't exist anymore. It's not the same company

I grew up during the same period.
When you account for inflation Walmart has kept prices falling.
That isn't a guess or a hypothesis, that is a documented fact

Walmart helped keep America's prices low for decades. Now it's leading them higher

After decades as an anchor against inflation, the retail giant is finally flinching. It's a signal of what's to come

qz.com

So you have to study more regarding the economic background when you make some of your claims.

Walmart has maintained their mission and driven prices low during their expansion and takeover same with Aldi's and Amazon. They simply can't drive costs low when the US government has enacted a policy to deliberately increase the prices consumers have to pay

 

[Chrishaune]

I grew up during the same period.
When you account for inflation Walmart has kept prices falling.
That isn't a guess or a hypothesis, that is a documented fact

Walmart helped keep America's prices low for decades. Now it's leading them higher

After decades as an anchor against inflation, the retail giant is finally flinching. It's a signal of what's to come

qz.com

So you have to study more regarding the economic background when you make some of your claims.

Walmart has maintained their mission and driven prices low during their expansion and takeover same with Aldi's and Amazon. They simply can't drive costs low when the US government has enacted a policy to deliberately increase the prices consumers have to pay

This is your problem you're trying to keep it political. They raised prices during Biden's term too. This doesn't have anything to do with policies. It's got everything to do with the system of syphoning resources from the people. Wal-Mart is complicit in it. Mr. Walton would have a totally different idea about what Wal-Mart is today. Just like most of the older generation that founded most of the discount retailers.

 

[David_TheMan]

This is your problem you're trying to keep it political. They raised prices during Biden's term too. This doesn't have anything to do with policies. It's got everything to do with the system of syphoning resources from the people. Wal-Mart is complicit in it. Mr. Walton would have a totally different idea about what Wal-Mart is today. Just like most of the older generation that founded most of the discount retailers.

Nope I'm keeping it based in reality.
Fact of the matter is control of the currency is entirely political and both parties have enacted policies to inflate the currency.

It makes no logical sense to blame a company any company for rising prices when they are not responsible for the creation of new currency aka inflation.

The US dollar has been on a path of uncontrolled inflation since it was formally declined from Gold under Nixon.

In that environment WalMart has actually fought inflation, it's in the article I sent you. Fed boards and NBER have studies that confirm this effect. Walmart has been able with their vendor relationship and economy of scale to allow Americans to enjoy a higher standard of living while driving the cost of living down incredibly low

So no you are simply factually wrong when you try to claim Walmart is hurting Americans or you and that it is Walmarts fault that our nation's government inflates the currency or in Trump's case inflates while also increasing taxes on foreign goods that allow us to take advantage of the low costs brought by specialized division of labor

Sorry if that bothers you, but it's simply the unvarnished truth. Want to be mad about why costs are going up, blame the politicians that control the money supply, not Walmart.

 

[Pure Water]

Democrats need to talk about nothing else. "trumpflation"

fukk whining about illegals and trannies. talk about ONE issue; trump's failed trade war raising prices on americans

also, they need to mock trump a whole lot more. china is walking trump like a dog; every democrat should be talking like that

And if they are going to talk about it, it needs to be framed as the Trump and the Republicans disregarding the constitution. I don't think pulling at heart strings is going to work anymore. Everything needs to be framed pragmatically.

 

[Chrishaune]

Nope I'm keeping it based in reality.
Fact of the matter is control of the currency is entirely political and both parties have enacted policies to inflate the currency.

It makes no logical sense to blame a company any company for rising prices when they are not responsible for the creation of new currency aka inflation.

The US dollar has been on a path of uncontrolled inflation since it was formally declined from Gold under Nixon.

In that environment WalMart has actually fought inflation, it's in the article I sent you. Fed boards and NBER have studies that confirm this effect. Walmart has been able with their vendor relationship and economy of scale to allow Americans to enjoy a higher standard of living while driving the cost of living down incredibly low

So no you are simply factually wrong when you try to claim Walmart is hurting Americans or you and that it is Walmarts fault that our nation's government inflates the currency or in Trump's case inflates while also increasing taxes on foreign goods that allow us to take advantage of the low costs brought by specialized division of labor

Sorry if that bothers you, but it's simply the unvarnished truth. Want to be mad about why costs are going up, blame the politicians that control the money supply, not Walmart.

The control of money is through the central banks.
And the central bank for the central banks is the Bank of International settlements.

Political parties don't control the money.

The Elites control the money. They're the ones that give the orders to governments and companies.

The dollar is just one tool they use. Most other currency is under their control. Except the countries they usually call communists.

They are the reason most of these wars are started.

 

[David_TheMan]

The control of money is through the central banks.
And the central bank for the central banks is the Bank of International settlements.

Political parties don't control the money.

The Elites control the money. They're the ones that give the orders to governments and companies.

The dollar is just one tool they use. Most other currency is under their control. Except the countries they usually call communists.

They are the reason most of these wars are started.

Yes the control of money is through the Federal reserve of the US, for the US there is no central bank that it gets money from. I fear you may be misinfor.ed about how is banking operates.

There is no international central bank that the US fed falls under. It is arguably the internal banking leader though as the us is currently the sole world power. Euro holders central bank is the ecb. Bank of Japan, bank of England, and Russia and China have their own central banks but tlwhile they work together often they are seperated. The concept you have that the bank of international settlements is the sole central bank for the world is simply wrong and it's exceptionally wrong.

Yes political parties in the us control the money supply because the fed chairman does the bidding of the POTUS despite the national media nonsense that the fed is independent. It is not, I suggest reading this short article if you are actually interested in learning how various presidents actually control the fed.

The Myth of Fed Independence | Mises Institute

The standard reply of the Fed and its partisans is that any such measures, however marginal, would encroach on the Fed's independence from politics.

mises.org

If you aren't interested in that her is a video you can put on and listen to.


Here is a movie that goes over it


So back to the topic yeah the political elites do control the money. They control it through the US dept of Treasury and the very real influence the POTUS has on the fed board and fed chairman. If a president is anti inflationary like Dwight then the fed policy will be anti inflationary, Dwight and Reagan telling Volker to raise interest rates are examples. If they want to generate spending the fed will let the spigot flow see Clinton, bush,Obama trump and Biden and trump again. You can actually go further back and the rothbard radio discussion I posted does so citing names of administration officials and dates explicitly.

In central banking fiat societies yes banking is and inflationis under the control of the government.

So that alone should tell you Walmart doesn't control the currency it doesn't control inflation, it can only operate in the currency market it is in, and the Minny Fed and NBER and general knowledge of how Walmart handles their vendors confirms Walmart isn't the reason your prices are going up and that their actions for us citizens have been anti inflationary

 

[Chrishaune]

Yes the control of money is through the Federal reserve of the US, for the US there is no central bank that it gets money from. I fear you may be misinfor.ed about how is banking operates.

There is no international central bank that the US fed falls under. It is arguably the internal banking leader though as the us is currently the sole world power. Euro holders central bank is the ecb. Bank of Japan, bank of England, and Russia and China have their own central banks but tlwhile they work together often they are seperated. The concept you have that the bank of international settlements is the sole central bank for the world is simply wrong and it's exceptionally wrong.

Yes political parties in the us control the money supply because the fed chairman does the bidding of the POTUS despite the national media nonsense that the fed is independent. It is not, I suggest reading this short article if you are actually interested in learning how various presidents actually control the fed.

The Myth of Fed Independence | Mises Institute

The standard reply of the Fed and its partisans is that any such measures, however marginal, would encroach on the Fed's independence from politics.

mises.org

If you aren't interested in that her is a video you can put on and listen to.


Here is a movie that goes over it


So back to the topic yeah the political elites do control the money. They control it through the US dept of Treasury and the very real influence the POTUS has on the fed board and fed chairman. If a president is anti inflationary like Dwight then the fed policy will be anti inflationary, Dwight and Reagan telling Volker to raise interest rates are examples. If they want to generate spending the fed will let the spigot flow see Clinton, bush,Obama trump and Biden and trump again. You can actually go further back and the rothbard radio discussion I posted does so citing names of administration officials and dates explicitly.

In central banking fiat societies yes banking is and inflationis under the control of the government.

So that alone should tell you Walmart doesn't control the currency it doesn't control inflation, it can only operate in the currency market it is in, and the Minny Fed and NBER and general knowledge of how Walmart handles their vendors confirms Walmart isn't the reason your prices are going up and that their actions for us citizens have been anti inflationary

You can sit here and try to make excuses and lies. There's always a top of the currency empire. All currency didn't start out under this system, but through the passage of laws and amendments, most currency is now under the control of the Bank for International Settlements.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Trump's Tariffs: Biggest Tax Hike Since 1982

The Trump administration’s reciprocal tariffs announced April 2 will raise government revenue in 2025 by $290 billion — a cost U.S. companies and consumers will pay.

www.forbes.com

i thought initially it was the bear patrol that was the biggest tax hike