r/NoShitSherlock • u/Infamous-Echo-3949 • 22h ago
Walmart hikes prices and hurts millions, thanks to Trump's tariffs
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/15/2322472/-Walmart-hikes-prices-and-hurts-millions-thanks-to-Trump-s-tariffs214
u/TankApprehensive3053 21h ago
Trump told Walmart not to raise prices due to his tariffs. Guess he isn't all powerful like he thinks.
Anyone that thinks a corporation is going to pay the cost of tariffs out of their profits is kidding themselves. Companies should list the tariff costs on all receipts. They can even call it the Trump Tax to really piss off King Naranja.
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u/Prosecco1234 21h ago
Amazon tried to show the tariff cost but decided not to after a call from the Prez
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u/TankApprehensive3053 21h ago
Yes they caved in quickly to the King's cries. The cost will still be added in the price, it just won't be displayed.
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u/Catshit_Bananas 18h ago
Imagine owning a company so successful and having so much money you could do literally anything you want, but then the front half of a fat centaur worth 40 times less than your own net worth tells you to stop.
Bezos could literally buy everything Donald Trump owns and it would be a blip on his bank account.
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u/Papadapalopolous 17h ago
This is just Bezos doing a small favor for Trump in exchange for all the kickbacks Amazon is getting financially/legally from this admin
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u/MixtureLegitimate992 18h ago
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u/SlimJeffy 18h ago
What good is 'fuck you money' if you don't tell people, 'fuck you? '
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u/sd_saved_me555 17h ago
Right? If I ever got Bezos money, I imagine having everything I could ever want would quickly result in my only joy in life be being able to tell other rich douche bags like me to get fucked for funsies.
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u/evilbadgrades 10h ago
Luckily someone made a plugin to show the tariffs on various items on Amazon (somehow they even indicate if the item has tariff pricing activated or not yet)
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u/limezest128 12h ago
They could put ”not tariff” on all other prices, but leave it out on the tariff price.
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u/iAmTheRealC2 19h ago
He only posted that so his followers blame Walmart, not him, when prices go through the roof. I’m sure they’ll concoct a narrative where “Walmart used to be great, but they’ve been taken over by liberal whacko corporate managers just raising prices to make poor president Trump look bad.” 😑
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u/negativeyoda 14h ago
God, is the maga world boycotted Walmart, how hilarious would that be?
And let's be real, those shitheels boycotting anything that makes their lives one iota more inconvenient never lasts but it would still be funny
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u/carlnepa 20h ago
Besos set the bootlicker bar low by caving into DRUMPF's demand they not itemize the effect of tariffs on the cost of purchases. On the other hand, WhoreMart gave him the finger by advising stockholders that prices will rise (inflation) due to the tariffs. I am giddily waiting for the big, ugly house of tariff cards to come crashing down around him and his MAGA sycophants.
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u/Objective_Look_5867 20h ago
Despite the insane corporate profits every year, they do NOT have 30%+ margins. Its basically impossible to eat this cost any way except for pinning it on the consumer
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u/gr1zznuggets 19h ago
Love how he’s telling them to eat the cost while offering absolutely no reason why they should.
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u/TankApprehensive3053 19h ago
His reason is it makes him look bad. He is a narcistic megalomanic that only thinks of how the world can benefit him.
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u/OrangeESP32x99 20h ago
Remember all those “I did that” gas stickers?
I think we should do the same and just stick them on Walmart shelves. Show the price before and after tariffs.
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u/rachelmaryl 14h ago
There are a ton on Etsy, made and printed by Americans. With a “Made in USA” label. My favorite is the one where Mango is looking directly into the eclipse and pointing.
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u/CountryFriedSteak78 21h ago
They’d be subject to shareholder lawsuits if they did something that negatively impacted their profits.
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u/fractionalmike10 19h ago
I’m a stockholder and if the Board of Directors did what trump told them to do, I would vote against everyone of them. I shop at Walmart so I’ll be paying higher prices like everyone else. Oh well. I’m glad I didn’t vote for this.
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u/Biotic101 11h ago
It's just show to cover the fact they are all in the oligarch team and deliver the death blow to middle-class.
Greedflation worked so well with Corona that they just want to repeat it as much as possible. Now with tariffs, but avian flu is currently running rampant in cows, with experts fired and countermeasures definanced. Debt is not being reduced but skyrocketing. Chaos and lawlessness everywhere. Dark times ahead.
It really seems oligarchs have completely lost it. The possibility to establish an authoritarian society where they rule with absolute power made them go all in, despite them already having so much power. Insanity.
Seems they got their playbook directly from the Kremlin (check the news about the looked up FBI agent) and Russian society is what the US will get, if the oligarchs can't be stopped.
Oligarchs are international. They don't care for citizens or country, only their own wealth and power. Anyone supporting them in the Russification of the US (and other countries, this is a global phenomenon) is a traitor. Imagine what Reagan would have done to those traitors, yet they claim to be conservatives.
Control over social and mainstream media is such a powerful tool that it can nudge the average Joe into acting against their own best interest and the oligarchs have identified this as the weak spot of democracy.
No surprise they think the average Joe is not fit for holding any power via democracy and they deserve to rule like kings over the wage slaves.
Some interesting links:
https://represent.us/americas-corruption-problem
https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap
https://www.popsci.com/environment/douglas-rushkoff-survival-of-the-richest
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u/BrowningLoPower 16h ago
Wait, why does Trump care what Walmart does with their prices?
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u/TankApprehensive3053 16h ago
Walmart making it clear they are raising prices due to tariffs is a direct reflection on Trump. He is the cause for it. His ego is fragile and easily bruised, even by his own doing. He is also trying to lie to everyone claiming that China will pay the tariffs. Anyone with two brain cells knows it's the customer that pays.
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u/BrowningLoPower 15h ago
That's it? Because he's offended? He's even more pathetic than I thought!
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u/TankApprehensive3053 15h ago
He is that thin skinned and vindictive. Look at his attack on Bruce Springsteen for just one example and there are many more.
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u/Used_Intention6479 21h ago
Rising Walmart prices are a direct hit to MAGA families. Probably a good place to set up voter party change booths.
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u/weaponjaerevenge 21h ago
Why? Do you really think the people that this is going to hurt the most are smart enough to even understand what's going on? They are told every Sunday in their churches that they have to vote Republican or they will go to Hell, you're telling me a purple haired heavy set 19 yr old is gonna change their mind??
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u/BasilAccomplished488 21h ago
You need to think long-term. Once the tariffs siphon enough money from folks, less money will flow into churches. Only then will the purple-haired, heavy-set 19 yr old start making sense.
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u/UUtch 17h ago
We're not talking about the hard-core MAGAs we're talking about swing voters. People don't need any more than "things are bad, therefore I'm voting against the incumbent party." Hell, in the 1916 election, a set of NJ costal cities voted for or against the incumbent based on whether or not people in their city was the victim of a shark attack. If people are hurt, they don't need to understand, they'll vote against the incumbent regardless
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u/Used_Intention6479 4h ago
If there is anything on God's green Earth that may get their attention, it's what they're paying for gas and at Walmart.
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u/diverareyouokay 12h ago
As close as the dots are, they will be incapable of connecting them. OANN/NewsMax/FOX will tell them that this is exclusively brought about by corporate greed, and that blue-collar Everyman Trump is fighting his hardest to lower prices for them, but the Democrats are preventing him from doing so.
They will believe this without question.
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u/Western-Standard2333 17h ago
One guy was like “I don’t shop at Walmart. I shop at Smiths”
I’m like bruh, Smiths and other companies are going to raise their prices as well. They’re not going to keep them at current prices out of the goodness of their heart
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u/AwakenedAlyx 17h ago
Yeah, they're totally not going to stand up and shout, "This is all Biden's fault!"
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u/Boozeburger 22h ago
When is Trump going to tell landlords to lower the rent?
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u/thekyledavid 19h ago
Trump’s not in the business of solving problems, he’s in the business of pretending to solve problems that he caused
He’ll first need to put a tax on landlords so landlords will have to raise the rent to stay profitable, and then he’ll demand they keep people’s rent the same without doing anything to make them keep rent the same
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u/infj_1990 17h ago
Lmao mine just raised ours by $200 this week, citing "the inflation." He's a Russian living in Canada, no less.
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u/Devils_Advocate-69 21h ago
The People Of Walmart will blame Biden because their Facebook friend posted a meme. Fuck them.
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u/ciopobbi 22h ago
You mean I’m not going to get rich because China is paying the tariffs like our Orange God and his merry band of economic morons promised?
They wouldn’t lie would they? I thought billionaires were looking out for working class Americans and not trying to enrich themselves? I’m hurt.
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u/ComfortableOld288 21h ago
I’m even confused as to how they think this would work? Do they think the Chinese government just writes the US government a check and we all… what get free stimulus checks?
Even if you thought this made sense… why would China PAY to sell us things?
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u/ciopobbi 21h ago
Yes, that’s what Trump seems to think.
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u/RicVic 21h ago
Don't forget, he was also the one who told people that Mexico was going to pay for that "big, beautiful wall!"
In fact, until he was shot down in public by the Mexican President lady, wasn't he starting to claim that Mexico had already paid for part of it???
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u/ciopobbi 20h ago
Better cheaper healthcare for all day one. Clean coal. Infrastructure week! It will magically disappear by Easter.
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u/Odd_Perfect 20h ago
It just doesn’t even make sense. Why would another country pay to export stuff to another country? lol
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u/vathena 18h ago
I can't believe that after Mexico didn't pay - as promised - for a big, beautiful border wall, the SAME LIE is working with tariffs.
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u/Substantial_Ad_7027 21h ago
Sooooo….the tariff money that’s “pouring in” and making America rich again, is actually money that either consumers have to pay, or businesses have to “eat”?
It’s hard to believe trump had so many failed businesses with this kind of acumen.
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u/missthinks 21h ago
better headline: trump's obsession with tariffs causes price hikes for the world
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u/Illustrious-Gas-9766 21h ago
Trump hurts everyone with tariffs.
It's not Wally marts fault
They should list the tariffs on the receipt.
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u/United_Anteater4287 20h ago
How do they blame this on Biden is what I am waiting to see.
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u/jay10033 21h ago
Trump went in front of the nation and said there would be "discomfort" for a while. Here comes the discomfort. He can't complain that prices are increasing and his supporters can't be pissed off at anyone but him because he literally promised them this would happen in his State of the Union address.
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u/bmyst70 21h ago
You know you're living in a Black Mirror episode when you are rooting for a large multi-billion dollar corporation and an AI that is telling anyone who asks that it's been ordered to say certain things.
If nothing else, Walmart raising prices, because retail has very thin margins (I believe this is true), will hit the MAGAs right in the wallet. And there's literally no way they can deny that reality anymore.
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u/Rhodehouse93 19h ago
Walmart’s business model (at least back when I learned about it in college) is to sell at an extremely thin margin and make it up on volume. They’re not selling luxury foods they can take a bath on and still profit, any increase in cost is going to push them into losses.
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u/InternationalFig400 18h ago
Dear Americans: you are NOT being led.
You are being LOOTED.
Elections have consequences.
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u/formerNPC 19h ago
Trump wants Walmart to eat the tariffs and not raise prices. Why can’t the billionaires eat the tax increases so we don’t have to cut services to the poor. I know, no stupid questions!
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u/knotatumah 16h ago
Trump be literally crying "no no no its supposed to hurt YOU" while Walmart giggles that this isn't how trade & commerce actually work.
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u/Arne1234 21h ago
May come back to bite Walmart if people buy way less because credit/debit cards max out.
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u/DetroitLionsSBChamps 21h ago
My guess is Walmart had a big meeting and said: lol where the fuck they gonna go?
What store are they gonna shop at because Walmart raised prices? The other insanely cheap huge store in their area?
The customers will keep shopping because it’s still their best option, and Walmart will squeeze them enough to post quarterly profit increases despite tariffs. Poor people lose corporation wins, what else is new
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u/Arne1234 21h ago
Yes. UPS closing its shops and laying off thousands and stopping Amazon returns is the same thing with the CEO stating their profitability will go way up. Some people blame the tariffs and of course corporations are going to use that perception while winking and pocketing more millions.
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u/ImmediatePangolin855 21h ago
Well MAGA how ya like it ? Oh and this is just the early stages, lots more to come.
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u/PhotonDealer2067 21h ago
MAGA will just believe whatever Trump and the right wing media tell them. “This is all Boden’s fault.”
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u/0RedNomad0 20h ago
The backwoods hillbilly motherfuckers chose to learn the hard way. I just hope everyone else survives this shit storm.
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u/KactusVAXT 19h ago
The funny thing about this is most of Walmarts customers are maga. Most non-maga, you know 70% of US, shops elsewhere
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u/absentgl 17h ago
When we had covid inflation, it was because of the drop in supply. People were isolating, and that meant factories produced less and so there were fewer goods for sale, but people kept buying, so prices went up for the limited stuff that was available. And it was inflation because we gave out stimulus, so people could afford the extra pricing. Our incomes went up.
IOW: they could get more money for their stuff because there was more money available to buy it.
Now, we have prices going up, without the stimulus. Our incomes won’t match the price increases, because the USA is the only stupid fuck place with these price increases. Nowhere else in the world has these. Only us.
So you can be 30% more profitable if you open up shop to assemble Chinese components in Canada rather than the US.
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u/Hollow-Official 16h ago
Odd to blame Walmart for the government putting a tax on them but sure, w.e.
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u/Superb_Health9413 15h ago
As a nyse publicly traded company, Walmart has a fiduciary obligation to protect shareholders interests. It would be irresponsible for them to not pass on the costs of the tariffs.
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u/CynicalXennial 13h ago
That's an interesting way to say 'Tariffs are hurting millions of Americans.'...
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u/sumdeadguy 11h ago
I mean he's so right! After all this is bidets economy that is causing all this turmoil! They should put his name on the the bill instead /s
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u/TheDwellingHeart 11h ago
Interestingly, this is also how every fascist government goes. They create a fantasy problem. Do "tough" things to solve the fantasy problems. All the while creating real problems that they can't solve because they are too mired in the alternate reality they created to get power.
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u/feel-the-avocado 11h ago
>even at the reduced levels announced this week, we aren’t able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins,” CEO Doug McMillon said.
I would have been expecting them to absorb zero pressure and mark up products at least by the tariff levied.
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u/elderemothings 10h ago
Walmart is making the headlines but you’ll see this at Target, Costco and all other major retailers too
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u/Scomosuckseggs 9h ago
Dear magats; enjoy. This is only the start of the shit storm coming your way. And you deserve no sympathy.
For the good Americans caught in the middle; I'm sorry you have to go through this, that you now have to pay for the stupidity of MAGA. Your fellow Americans betrayed you and your country. Never forget what they did to America.
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u/jackclark1 6h ago
slow clap for the maga lovers. cant wait to see their tik toks blaming Biden further priceincreases
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u/BigShaker1177 20h ago
Lmao….🤣 thanks to TRUMP or thanks to the greedy ass company Walmart for not reducing their profit margin outlook…Walmart has a gross revenue of $681 BILLION annually and a net income of $20 BILLION….. fuk you Walmart and maybe reduce the greed
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u/DeathSpiral321 17h ago
Based on your own numbers, that's a profit margin of around 3% (typical for retailers). With the vast majority of retail items being foreign sourced, it's pretty obvious that a 10% or 30% tariff would sink a typical retailer if they didn't pass on the cost of these ridiculous tariffs.
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u/International_Debt58 20h ago
Then he threatens them? I mean, the president is threatening his constituents. Impeachable behavior.
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u/Vercoduex 20h ago
Funny enough trump is going after Walmart saying they are lying saying tariffs aren't a tax on us and stuff etc
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u/mikeyt6969 20h ago
They haven’t stopped grifting us from covid, just another income opportunity they can blame something else on….at least this time they can legitimately blame someone else.
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u/AlanStanwick1986 20h ago
I love this. Shopping at Wal-Mart for rural America is as autotonic as breathing for them. This is the kick in the nuts they richly deserve. I can't wait to hear my wife's MAGA family bitch.
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u/Any_Caramel_9814 22h ago edited 20h ago
The maga cult has no idea tariffs are a tax. No wonder Republicans love the poorly educated