Walmart Workers Share Photos of Price Increases

Important to note here that Donald lied repeatedly and vociferously that tariffs would not lead to price increases. (Getting this in before people come here to blame the voters.)

He has lied repeatedly and vociferously his whole life, and anyone with critical thinking capacity knows/has known that. There is a lot to blame for this situation, Trump voters and all non-voters should not be immune from accepting their share of it.
- "Critical thinking"? What is that? Let me just ask Gemini...
- and anyone with critical thinking capacity knows/has known that
  I'd love to see this same perspective voiced with equal indignation when Joe Biden campaigns with black people and pledges support for BLM, but then doubles down on militarizing the police once elected. (Among other outright lies.)
  Trump voters and all non-voters should not be immune from accepting their share of it.
  Absolutely not. If you want people to vote for you, you have to give them something to vote for. Despite knowing the deep unpopularity of Biden's presidency and campaign, the Democrats crowned a weak candidate (wait no, two weak candidates really) who promised to change nothing about it. If we're being reasonable here, one has to credit Democrats' outright stupidity and obstinance in the face of a base demanding real change.
While it was a lie. I don't think he thought he was lying because he literally doesn't understand 5th grade math.
- I think a narcissist like Donald honestly never thinks he's lying, but you make a solid point.
Is it not the voters fault though?
- No, it's not.
  It's the fault of the Democrats, who had an abundance of information about the unpopularity of Biden and his presidency, and then made a series of awful decisions about the presidential campaign, not the least of which being nominating a weak candidate who prioritized Biden's ego over appealing to voters.
  You also cannot tell voters who've been getting poorer while you've ruled that you won't change anything, and definitely shouldn't tell them to be joyful about it.
I'm just wishing the voters all the "winning" that they voted for.
- That's what I love about my fellow Americans: the willingness to unironically cheer poverty, authoritarianism, and fascism as long as the machinery of government appears to be directed at your perceived enemies.
Donald lied repeatedly
This ~~War~~ Tariff Will Destabilize The Entire ~~Mideast Region~~ Domestic Economy And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
No It Won’t
No it won’t.
It just won’t. None of that will happen.
You’re getting worked up over nothing. Everything is going to be fine. So just relax, okay? You’re really overreacting.
Nah fam, blaming the voters.
Trump wasn't some "We never knew what he was like", we had him as president for four years, and yet somehow in four years we went through a fugue state and reelected him as a country. So... yea... blaming the voters on this one. ANYONE surprised is a mouth breathing idiot.
I mean, that's like claiming that he lied repeatedly and vociferously that jumping in the pool will not lead to getting wet. There is no way to believe that lie aside from deep, deep ignorance.
Why would we not blame the voters?
Ignorance is not an excuse. We should not normalize that.
They were told, repeatedly, by everyone, including every economist in existence, that tariff's would be a tax on consumers. They didn't listen, because they're fucking assholes.
This guy has already lied to them many, many, many times over. They didn't learn either because they're unbelievably stupid, or committed to hurting others so much that they chose to turn a blind eye to the lies.
Of course I'm blaming the voters.
capitalism leads to price increases. tariffs taxes fees … all a part of capitalism

Thanks, universe, for not letting me spawn in the USA...

You’re just jealous of our freedoms
- *fiefdoms
- We have freedoms?
- Nah. They resent us because we don't have ~~high quality, affordable healthcare~~ sOcIaLiSm.
The politics suck here, but there are far worse places. At least it's not South Sudan.
There are only two places on Earth:
Countries called the US
Countries the US is planning to invade next
- If you think colonialism is unique to the US I have a continent to sell you.
- Nah, I'm from Germany... The US would never.... You know.... We are friends.... //throws history book out of the window//.....
- You've got some catching up to do then.
  Pink is countries the UK has invaded. Purple is everyone else.

Walmart Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey previously told Newsweek: "As we look ahead, while operating conditions are expected to remain dynamic, our strategy is clear, our top-line momentum is strong, and we are flexing into our advantages to protect margins as we grow."

"Look, lord knows what our fuckwit President will do next, but our plan is clear. While our profits continue to be strong, we'll use our heft to squeeze suppliers and our near monopoly in rural areas to squeeze customers. In any case, we'll protect our bottom line and continue to grow."

They’re the only store in many places so they are in a good position to raise prices. The big question is if their customers can afford to buy anything anymore.
- They could barely afford it before. The scary question is what they'll do when they realize how screwed they are.
- Lemmy is big on making fun of "forever growth". But that's how the world has always worked, there is no ideal steady state. We Americans are within a couple of years of slamming into the brick wall of "can't buy shit".
  Nothing will save us but straight raping the rich for what they've done to us. And since they've bought and paid for all the mechanisms to claw back even a morsel, too late. There will quickly come a time when they can no longer be their own best customers. We provide the labor, value and purchasing power.

I commend these employees for posting the price increases.

Despite TACO Don's lies, really, we all knew this was coming. It's good to have validation, regardless.

Newsweek has reached out to Walmart outside of regular working hours via an online contact form.

Lol gotta love how Newsweek doesn't even have someone they can reach out to at Walmart. At this point Walmart's PR department is probably an intern with a microsoft copilot account since no matter what shitty thing they do nothing happens to them and people still shop there.

Most people/towns have no other option, All the big corps have taken down anything local, over the last 20-30 years.
- That’s true, I should have specified that for those with a choice on where they shop. But even in towns and cities where there are major retail/grocery alternatives, Walmarts tend to thrive.
- Even if it was a local small business, they would be increasing price. Did you think they can absorb 30% tariff when their margin is single digits?
To be fair, it's also because Newsweek is a joke of a magazine now that doesn't have real journalists with those sorts of contacts anymore.
People in America care more about money than anything else. There could be a brand that kills children and as long as it's cheaper it will be bought. Cough nestle cough
- That’s true nearly everywhere capitalism exists though, not just America. Nestle sales in Europe aren’t far behind their North America sales

Tacoflation is going to hurt US consumers.

Good. Let's get my mother the cheaper groceries she wanted.

Fascist bitch.

My mother in law, a religious Walmart shopper and Qanon adherent, won’t stop bitching about her grocery bill. Fucked around, found out, still not getting a single neuron to fire across the gap. I think she’s just eating packs of crayons.
- Liberal: "Haha, stupid conservatives, now we're all going to drown together, you idiot."
  Conservative: "Fucking smug liberals, I'm going to put another big hole in this boat, just to show them."
  Leftist: "Shit! Fuck! Guys, please let's not drown. We need to come together as working people and fight to reclaim the boat we've all worked so hard to build."
  Liberal/Conservative In Unison: "God damn Tankies. This is all their fault. Let's throw'm overboard."

HitlerPig's primary campaign promise was to lower prices, which were already under control. Now prices are going up significantly, and the media isn't going after him for it. I have heard him claim in multiple interviews that gas is $2 a gallon, and yet I've never heard a journalist challenge that easily disputable lie. There is not a single place in this country where gas is $2, so why aren't they demanding answers when he says this? Where is it $2?

Every interview should be demanding how he intends to bring down prices, like he promised, and when it will happen.

Well, you see, the people who voted for him weren't actually expecting lower prices, they were expecting racism, because they're racists.
So far he's delivered on schedule.
- To be fair, there's a portion of Trump voters that just believe him because they're idiots who don't pay attention to any news and lack even the most basic critical thinking skills. I know from firsthand experience as several of my family members are in this category.
  They're not red hat wearers but voted for him because they're poor and he said he'd make things cheaper. They're surprisingly not racist, but their stupidity supports racism.
I've actually seen them posting about eggs and only eggs now. They want to know why liberals aren't talking about egg prices now. They're ignoring the rest. They're down to $3 a dozen or so, which is better, but it's still at least double what they were not long ago.
Shitler has a nice ring to it btw.
- I like Clown Prince.
Closest I’ve seen where I live is 2.50
- Most places in America, it's about $3. Where I live, it cycles between $2.90 and $3.20. it's about $3.09 today.

TBF there is a cocoa shortage so the powder increase is expected. But there isn't a Chinese fishing reel shortage, just dumb taxes.

There's actually been a huge increase in lefties, and they demand fishing reels.
- The lefties yearn for the reel
- More specifically, there's now a generation of people who didn't get their ass beat for using their left hand (this was surprisingly common up through the fucking 90s in some places) and now they want leisure goods that are left-hand-capable.

Grocery shopping yesterday we really noticed it for the first time. Things have been higher and higher for a while but now there an extra 10-30% on some goods, overnight. Gonna be a brutal year. I’ve never seen stagflation in the flesh. No one my age has.

I spent more for groceries than I ever have before last week.
I'm not looking forward to the future.
What I have noticed is less and less items on sale. I mostly purchase sale stuff and I have slim pickings. I actually saved a flyer from a few months back and there’s a lot more on sale.
- I've been buying the generic brands between Kroger and Walmart just passed on what i needed most this week. It's always the cheapest anyway. I see zero reason to buy name brand flour, condiments, or canned foods. What killed me this week as buying kitty litter. That Was a massive increase. Fortunately i live 2 blocks away from the weekly farmer's market, so i am gonna just start buying seasonal produce there this summer

You know where you notice this? As an American buying appliances in Europe. You can buy a front loading washing machine for 300€, including VAT. A refrigerator? 400€. Three years ago I paid 1800 for a fridge in the us, and last year bought a scratch and dent special washing machine for $600

Edit: and US prices are not including Tax.

I just bought a whole suite of new appliances over here. I didnt realise I ws doing so well. Most wasshers and dryers here are front load, thats standard. Something else that came up on my travels is that you guys dont often have fans in your ovens, which would be very standard here.
- The ones with fans would be "convection" ovens, which cost more this side of the pond
- The oven fan drives me nuts. It allows them to sell stupid shit like air fryers. Put convection in my fucking oven and stop charging up to $1000 extra for the option.
  Also the combo washer dryer. I stayed with friends in Belgium for a month over 25 years ago. They had a front load washer/dryer. One appliance. We are now finally seeing these in North America but they suck balls and are really expensive.

As best I can tell from Trump administration statements, their strategy for mitigating their political damage has been to publicly demand that WalMart and other companies just take losses as he increases their input costs.

That's not going to happen, but I suppose that it doesn't matter, if enough people believe that it could.

What I find darkly fascinating about this "eat the cost" strategy is that if you were to dare suggest taxing Walmart more, Trump's fans would call you a commie librul socialist who just wants handouts. But when Trump demands that they subsidize his agenda suddenly they're all for it.
- Because taxes can be traced to services that should be provided to people. No one knows where the money from tariffs are going. (The rich)
- I’m no longer all that fascinated by the fact that they will follow “their guy” in circles and then straight off a cliff. It’s just gross.
- It's honestly a little poetic in a way, given how the that's how Walmart's treated its workers for generations. (ie, Walmart subsidizing their profits by paying workers so little they have to seek the social safety net.)
It never made any sense. Walmart famously keeps a profit margin under 3%. And Shitstain L’Orange tells them to eat a 25% tariff? How does that work? They just operate on a 22% loss???
- Well the arithmetic isn't that simple. Cost of purchasing goods is far from WMT's only cost. So even if you assumed that particular expense increased 25% (reality being less), the impact to profit would be always less. Maybe WMT technically could eat the cost, their executives have probably ordered projections. But market forces and the will of the shareholders certainly makes it an unlikely proposition.

But the felon rapist conman traitor said he'd lower prices.

HE SAID SO.

There is a left-handed fisherman somewhere who is so pissed at him right now!
wow. The donvict lying? SAY IT ISN'T SO!

I used to be a department manager in the GM side and had to do a lot of price increases for my toys due to supply chain issues in 2020. this kind of price change is crazy and I am glad they fired me for being a fag. I would hate to still be working there

Are we feeling great again yet? 200% cost of goods sure feels great for the company stockholders.

Prepare your Trump "I did that" stickers.

Oh so that’s how they work…

Will this be enough to get the public to turn? I hope so, but somehow I don’t think so.

Nah. They think this is a necessary sacrifice. They think they are soldiers in a war.

meh, shop at costco and aldi. never going back to wally world after they kissed the ring.