The world's largest retailer — like many others — has been absorbing most of the increased costs, but raising prices of some goods. n.pr/477XqRS
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Their profit margin is up from 2.63 to 2.75% over 2024’s as of April…I guess they chose to pass the expense on to consumers, even though they are one of the largest employer of welfare benefits recipients in America and don’t pay enough.
aug 21, 2025, 6:26 pm • 2 1 • view
No, they’re not absorbing the tariffs. Hubby bought a dremel tool kit. It didn’t work. No exchanges, only refunds. Ok. Got a refund and got on line to buy another one the next day. It was $100 MORE! I called and complained and she said tariffs were causing daily increases.
aug 21, 2025, 5:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Check the price of coffee lately?
aug 21, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Saying Walmart is absorbing most of the increased costs is misleading. Not increasing prices decreases profits & therefore dividends to shareholders who in turn inject less into the economy. Adversely affects wage increases, bonuses for workers & new hires. Less to spend on maintenance & expansion.
aug 21, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Actually wish they’d stop absorbing so people would see what’s happening. They will only realize how bad things are when it hits their pockets.
aug 21, 2025, 4:51 pm • 6 0 • view
The fact they can absorb anything shows how much they've been price gouging up to this point already.
aug 21, 2025, 4:54 pm • 13 0 • view
Remember all those campaign signs along the roads, "Harris/High Prices--Trump/Low Prices" ?? Yeah how's that working for everybody now????
aug 21, 2025, 5:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Walmart owners heavily donated to Trump’s campaign. They should be eating up the tariffs since they helped him get elected. They’re getting what they voted for.
aug 21, 2025, 5:13 pm • 4 1 • view
They just say they did, and NPR repeats it like good little stooges.
aug 21, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Are we winning yet?
aug 21, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
who could have seen this coming?
aug 21, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Just add a few lines to every receipt: Total before Trump tariffs. Trump tariffs. Total after Trump tariffs. The greatest idiot economist in the world should be proud of his tariffs. Instead, he hides. And the media and retailers do nothing to expose his incompetence, making them complicit cowards
aug 21, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Tacos Tariffs are a disaster. Tariffs have been a repudiated economic and political policy since at least 1890.
aug 21, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump said prices would be reduced when he became president. Prices have gone up and up.
aug 21, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Never trust a guy about economics if he’s bankrupted a casino. Let alone three.
aug 21, 2025, 4:40 pm • 17 0 • view
The problem with this is that Walmart is large enough to weather the storm but other retailers are not going to be able to subsidize Trump's tariffs and will either have to raise their prices to an uncompetitive level or go out of business. And once the other businesses are gone, guess who's left?
aug 21, 2025, 5:01 pm • 2 0 • view
I have never and will never step foot in a Walmart store! I’ll go dumpster diving first.
aug 21, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
And to think, in 2024 a majority of people were trying to openly tell everyone that this would actually happen. The Waltons. Billionaires, heavily enthralled within the Republican Party and donate accordingly, voted for their best interests, the top 1%. Why?
aug 21, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 1 • view
Because they’re laughing all the way to the bank.
aug 21, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
If that's not the consequences of your actions? We're fracked but you're fracked together, with us. Congrats in not voting for sane people, USA.
aug 21, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Frog boiled in the pot.
aug 21, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Well duh.
aug 21, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I LUV this for maga
aug 21, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I am now calling Walmart "Maga•mart".
aug 21, 2025, 4:54 pm • 5 0 • view
Weird. Under Biden, they took full advantage of raising prices because everyone else was, now under Trump, they’re absorbing costs due to Trump’s nonsensical tariffs.
aug 21, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Never happened in a billion years. They're lying about not raising prices. Maybe they absorbed some, but prices there have done nothing but go up.
aug 21, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
What I’m hearing is they could have had lower prices this whole time and still made a huge profit.
aug 21, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, there is a point where they're going to lose customers because we can't afford some of those costs. People still haven't figured out that tariffs are taxes WE pay.
aug 21, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
how, exactly, will they lose customers? where will they go that would/could be cheaper?
aug 21, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I hear Target is needing customers these days 😉
aug 21, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Even more expensive, kind of a moot point.
aug 21, 2025, 4:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Where I live, in rural Pennsylvania, the median income is somewhere between $25k and $35k. While they may "absorb costs," it will drive people to look for alternatives. (Like theft.) While I have the alternative of local farmers markets, that isn't a country-wide option. This isn't a gotcha.
aug 21, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 0 • view
i wasn't looking for a 'gotcha' i was earnestly asking... and i don't see how a local farmer's market (not an option here) is a solution to higher prices...they're far more expensive than chains
aug 21, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
yall ready for the Fall Shitshow after The Long Hot Summer?
aug 21, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Taco going to extra tariff them for saying that!
aug 21, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe they feel guilty for not lowering their prices after Covid?😬
aug 21, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view
So they only make 1 billion in profit while screwing over the desperate workers? No pity
aug 21, 2025, 4:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes and no! On some items, the show a reduced price but a massive charge for shipping. You can only assume that shipping amount includes the tariffs.
aug 21, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Already seeing it. Grape tomatoes were $2.99 for a while. Maybe a year or two in our area. This week, $3.49.
aug 21, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Shock, Trump lied!
aug 21, 2025, 4:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Bullshit. I have to shop there despite my revulsion. And I can testify that their prices go up week by week, moreover, they use surveillance pricing to try to squeeze every last penny out of customers who order online like I do because I need curbside delivery. NPR, you literally suck.
aug 21, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
😂🤣
aug 21, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 21, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Up! Prices Jobs Down Umm...
aug 21, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't Dead Open Inside
aug 21, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Please Walmart put on our receipt the cost of the tariffs, like the taxes.
aug 21, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
The shell game can only go on for so long. Trump's tariffs are a tax on the consumer whose negative effects are only going to worse over time.
aug 21, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
More generally, according to a Goldman Sachs estimate, the part of the tariff costs that American will absorb may go up to 67%:
aug 21, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
"A report Goldman Sachs economists published over the weekend estimated Americans “absorbed 22% of tariff costs through June,” but that this share will rise to 67% by October if tariffs “follow the same pattern as the earliest ones.”" – CNN
aug 21, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 1 • view
Sure they have. Quit posting press releases, NPR, do some real journalism.
aug 21, 2025, 4:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Literally just watching my grocery bill Increase for less and less food. What a great time to be an American!
aug 21, 2025, 4:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Stop the losses
aug 21, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Nice to know that they can absorb costs when they so choose, but didn’t feel like helping anybody out during the last admin as we were recovering from a catastrophic pandemic.
aug 21, 2025, 4:51 pm • 2 0 • view
As long as egg prices stay low, they can just rape consumers on everything else! Yay!! AND REMEMBER, this was caused solely by the Rapist in the White House.
aug 21, 2025, 4:40 pm • 5 0 • view