Wait what?
Wouldn’t it be more news worthy if they were not?
Unfortunately, a lot of people actually believe the Chomo-In-Chief’s bullshit and truly thought that other countries were paying the tariffs.
The very same rocket surgeons thought that Project 2025 was a “Democratic hoax” or a “blue maga conspiracy theory”, too…not the sharpest bulbs, as Taco would say.
They knew that was a lie, but they’re OK with lying if it benefits their agenda.
Yup, and when the tariffs go away, they’ll keep the higher prices and pocket the difference.
Another fun thing about tariffs. Those domestic producers that are being protected by tariffs will increase their prices as high as they can.
For example, let’s say an American company can sell a widget for $5 and a Chinese company can sell it for $4.
You slap a 100% tariff on the Chinese widget, now it costs the consumer $8.
The American company can now sell you the widget for the initial $5 and leave $2.99 on the table, or they can jack their price up to $7.99, be cheaper than the Chinese widget, and increase their profits while gesturing around vaguely at “market conditions”
End result, you pay more for the widget, more than it the foreign producer used to sell it for and more than the domestic producers used to sell it for.
Now imagine you make something that has dozens of inputs and that happens to every input.
Truly a golden age
It’s not just domestic companies being greedy (though they definitely are) they kinda have to raise prices to avoid shortages. Basic supply and demand pressures.
In the long term they could expand their production and lower the prices, which is theoretically the point of the tariffs. But no one is going to make that long term investment because of the likelihood that the tariffs will be ruled illegal by the courts and general TACO stuff.
Here in Australia, most of the inflation we encountered in 2024 was due to large retailers simply increasing their prices because everyone expected everything to be more expensive.
It’s been the same in the US since covid.
Shocked Pikachu meme
And somehow, they’re still making record profits!
People still need to eat, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the supermarkets have kept the same margins as a percentage with the higher price for essential products.
Gosh, I thought they were just going to eat the costs, because Taco hereby ordered it.
No shit
It is almost like that is how things work. MAGAts you are getting what you voted for.
Sadly, you and I, too.
But it’s fine, because Cracker Barrel changed their logo back.
I’m pretty sure that was just a marketing stunt
Well yes. A logo change is very explicitly a marketing stunt to get people paying attention to you.
That whole thing was so stupid. A bunch of folks hated it because they thought it was woke. A bunch more folks didn’t give the slightest shit but thought it was a terrible rebrand. Even more folks said “Wait, they’re still in business?”
Living off tips at a Cracker Barrel must be rough. At least Waffle House isn’t slow.
I usually only drive past one on Sundays (church crowd) but that one is always completely packed. Unsure how it does other days. I want to say I’ve been by there a few times on Saturday morning and it’s also been very busy.
Source: deep south US, if the term “church crowd” didn’t already tell you that.
The church crowd are notoriously terrible tippers (a fake $20 bill with a ‘find Jesus’ message on it, anyone?), so my reasoning was it still probably evens out to sucky.
You’ll get no arguments from me on that ;)
Waffle House isn’t too bad. Even Anthony Bourdain enjoyed it. If I don’t get tacos when I’m up at 3am (we’ve got an amazing 24 hour taco stand about 10 minutes from me and the tacos are all $3 or less) I’ve been known to stop in and get my drunk ass scattered, smothered, covered, and chunked. It ain’t the best food in the world, but it definitely hits that little happy button in my brain.
Cracker barrel wishes they were waffle house.
Oh, I wasn’t even talking about the food, just the servers trying to make money. At least Waffle House has a good amount of people going through it, but nobody seems to remember Cracker Barrel existed before now so I assume it’s much slower/fewer tips.
I wasn’t clear. Part of the reason no one remembers Cracker Barrel is that the food is pretty bleh. A few things are incredibly bad. Anything that is kind of ok is outshined by waffle house.
But yeah, being a server there has to suck.
Oh, totally unsurprising, I don’t think Waffle House is a “good” corporation by comparison, just better than working somewhere that’s slow AF. Back in the day (90’s/00’s) Cracker Barrel also got shit for refusing to hire gay people.
The whole thing is just a cost cutting measure. There’s a reason why all fast food places look the same now… it’s the cheapest way to build a restaurant.
But sure… let’s pretend there must be a politcal reason for all restaurants having the same boring design so we can pretend anything we don’t like is “woke”.
I was definitely in the last of those three categories.
Now they should put up signs next to the prices showing how much of the raise is due to Trumps tariffs.
Lol, you think the ruling class gives a fuck? Look up who the owners of Kroger, Publix, etc. supported. They are happy to just charge more and blame Democrats.
Trump has already threatened to sue grocery stores and Amazon for listing the tariff, and they’re cowards
Since my last grocery trip: beef is at record highs, worse than the pandemic. Egg beaters (100% inflation in 11 months) and Hot Pockets (50% inflation, same time period) are at record prices BJ’s bottled water went up from $3.50 to $4, first increase I’ve seen Soda products are are almost record highs, around $8.75 ish. Record high was when diesel was super high, and was $9.50. now, 15 years ago, same store, it was regularly $2. an average loaf of bread is almost at $4.- 15 years ago it was breaking $1.
Bottled water went up? Surely that’s just opportunistic
BJ’s house brand. I assume it has mostly to do with the price of diesel. Coka Cola prices vary with diesel prices.
Why buy it at all? It’s a con.
And soda’s a non-food item. I haven’t had any carbonated liquid candy for decades, and as a result, my quality of life is better than it was when I drank that useless crap.
In the US, Bread has been almost completely monopolized by BIMBO, which slashed all the low priced items on their buyouts with the expensive brands. Now the prices are higher, even though they promised in their merger records that they wouldn’t increase prices or remove Lowe brands.
Seems nobody wants to enforce the laws anymore.
I just buy whatever is on sale. That has been my solution.
Groceries, they have a term ‘grocery.’ It’s an old term, but it means basically what you’re buying foods. It’s pretty accurate term, but it’s an old fashioned sound.
Groceries are what you buy from a grocer at a grocery store
Grocer is one of those terms where it gets increasingly evident that English is Germanic Hill with a French castle built on top.
Because you bought food in “gross” – or, large quantities.
That usage died out in the 16th century, in favor of the modern meaning.
I was about to correct you on that but I looked it up and you’re more correct than me.
I thought groceries were more like packaged goods and not necessarily edible.
Like here in Australia if I went to a super market and bought steak and veggies I wouldn’t say “I’m just out buying some groceries”.
Another example, “I buy my veggies from the veggie shop, steak from the butcher, and then other groceries from the super market”.
I guess it is a somewhat old term. becoming less popular I suppose.
why hasn’t anyone told about this???
Retailers wanted to put a line item on the receipts calling out the tariff costs and Trump threatened to sue them.
same story with Amazon too, initially there was a note detailing the extra cost of tariffs. needless to say Trump started hurling threats, flailing his arms, crying and shouting.
I want to say “no shit” but then I remember the average American.
