lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular. And they’re gonna stay empty.
Are we winning yet?
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Its also what the stores voted for. Almost every major corporation wanted Trump and heavily lobbied for him to get in. News outlets, grocery chains, retail stores, tech companies, every large corporation wanted this.
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Unfortunately, it seems this needs to happen to wake people the fuck up.
Another article today about people literally having no concept of why the websites they're shopping on is suddenly way more expensive (and explicitly showing the tariff costs).
People are surprised by this, and many of them have literally never even heard the word "tariff" before.
And the illiterate yokels in 12 months time: "Tariff?! That sounds like one of them thar a-rab names!!"
lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular
Nah. We've already seen businesses implementing digital price tags for just this occurrence.
Your stores will stay stocked. You're just going to see merch doubling and tripling in price as inventory depletes.
Eventually, you'll walk into a store, see a single pair of jeans on the rack, and read a $1000 price tag on it because it's the last pair of that style in 20 miles.
I suspect many more Americans may actually start to feel feelings about Trump when they can't participate in the great American pastime of buying more shit.
No bread, no circus. The first already happened a while ago, but losing the second shows a possible hilarious miscalculation from Trumps lot. The blowback is going to be interesting. Though I also worry it's a way to force people out in the streets as they are laying the groundwork for unrest.
Here's hoping they instead realize they don't need any of that shit.
Yay, another COVID style supply chain apocalypse. This time brought on entirely by American conservatives and their lack of brain cells.
Buy exactly ZERO gifts for your conservative family members for their bdays and Xmas and make sure to tell them it's because of the new Trump Tax.
the last time was also conservative caused too.
Make it "republican tax". This is not trump tax
I am using a portion of my savings to prepare before things run dry. Some extra food, but mostly renovations or big ticket items. New sink and a bidet toilet, my first ever smartphone, physical cash in the form of Euros, a 24tb drive to prep for replacing my Windows OS with Linux, a gun club membership and ammo, ect.
Before Trump was a thing, I was planning on just sitting on my life savings and let it grow, only touching it when I hit 60 or 70. That is out the window, since odds are that Trump's regime will kill me for being an progressive autistic. Fun times. 😩
soon have only about 7 weeks
I'll soon buy a house in maybe up to about 6 months or more, possibly less. Give or take a few months. Definitely sometime around then. Or after. Or before.
Right?! This thing will happen in "soon" + 7 weeks. What a worthless headline/statement.
Lean inventory and just in time supply management for the win!
if you need, or might need tech in the near future, BUY IT NOW. not just because of the price hike, but because there won't be anything left to buy
I recently bought a small generator that charges via solar panel. With weather events getting more severe each year, and my boyfriend needing a sleep apnea machine, it seemed a good idea to get a portable source of power that's completely off the grid.
I don't know what's going to be happening in the near future, but I figured I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and be unable to get it due to scarcity and potentially-dramatic price increases.
Lol dummies
Man. Am I ever so fortunate to being a minimalist. Wtf is everyone buying all the time?
think of shit people actually need.
band aids? China
Peroxide and Rubbing alcohol? China
gauze? China
IV tubing and equipment? China
This ain't a, "I can't buy fruitless shit anymore" kinda crisis.
It's the big one, homie.
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Question for the class: aside from the obvious like computers and technology, what category items are we expecting to be hit hardest? Or to ask pointedly, what items that we NEED might be affected?
Literally anything imported. Which is virtually everything.
It's time to play America's favorite game, "Find Something Made in the U.S.A."! Check the clothing in your closets, check the produce in your fridge, check the toys in your child's toybox!
The first person to find five different items labeled "Made in the U.S.A." wins the game!
Baby care items are going to get hit hard.
The ones you don’t think of, naturally.
Clothing, but, tbh, I expect that need to be flexible. I personally could ride out a few years just repairing my items. Pants are what I expect to run out of first--the bottoms give out and that is beyond my repair skills.
I have a few more bags of coffee than I normally would, because caffeine makes things better and we don't grow that here. I have a bit of chocolate.
I really don't know what will be in short supply. I didn't want to hoard stuff I won't use, but I don't want to run out of stuff I need.
we dont grow cacoa either, tropical climates grow our vanilla orchids, cacoa, and coffee beans, avacadoes, pineapples too. and vanilla is notoriously hard to grow, due to its biology(because you have to hand pollinate each flower as the natural pollinator is probably in its native range is either extinct or extirpated and not available in where the vanilla grows, and the vanilla has been mostly self-pollinating.
Excited to revisit the discourse on price gouging for the next few months.
There is no price gouging in U.S.A.
The Orange King has invited you to Lake Gitmo.
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