White House accuses Amazon of ‘hostile and political act’ after report says company will display tariffs costs on site
  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, no shit it’s hostile. This Administration is being hostile to their business! What in the fuck did they expect to happen?

    • Evotech@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Well, it’s never going to happen in the first place

      «Amazon moved to distance itself from the report, saying the idea had been considered by Amazon Haul, the company’s recently launched low-cost shopping hub, but had been rejected.

      “The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen,” said Tim Doyle, Amazon spokesperson."

    • Novocirab@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      Thoughts on how to make this happen:

      • Ask your local cashiers and other store clerks how come the prices rose, and whether that really is all tariffs. Again and again. And ideally so that other shoppers overhear it.

      • Make angry social media posts explicitly asking the same, explicitly tagging your local store and/or the chain to which they belong, and muse about looking into their competitors.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        I get that you want to aggrieve the owners but that last • tactic feeds into Reichwingers absolving Trump. Asking in person, where they have a chance to say, “yes, see this here is the tariffs amount” puts the blame where it belongs (and can also bring price-gouging into the light, because for sure some will happen).

        • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Gouging will happen in every industry, by every corporation. The only ones that might not are locally owned, which has been dwindling since at least the 90s.

          It happened with covid, it happened with bird flu, and it’s about to happen the biggest ever with tariffs as the excuse.

  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Amazon had already listed import and duty fee way before this. These fees are just now a lot larger and more “visible”.

    Tarrifs = Tax

    The tax is paid by local business and then passed onto consumers in higher cost of goods.

    FYI, generally when you buy items on Amazon and the goods are not locally stocked in Amazon’s warehouse for same day delivery, Amazon acts like a broker for you helping facilitate the import of goods. The import fee is then passed onto you as the “importer” directly. Things that Amazon stocks locally but imported themselves will just increase in price and a label may not show the import fee paid for by amazon at the time they imported the product or item.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The import fee is then passed onto you as the “importer” directly.

      Amazon has basically been a massive drop shipping scheme for the past five years or so. Basically everything is stuff that’s on AliExpress, just doubled in price and relisted on Amazon.

      It’s not even a good place for books anymore.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Trump: “We’re increasing foreign prices because we want consumers to prefer buying American.”

    Retailers: “These foreign goods are more expensive than American-made ones.”

    Trump: “How dare you tell them that!”

  • bstix@feddit.dk
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    2 months ago

    It’s just another example of their incompetence.

    They ought to be proud of labeling the tariffed products, so that customers could easier choose the domestic brands, which supposedly is the point of having the tariffs in the first place.

    Attempting to hide it only shows that they realize how bad the tariffs really are.

    • chaotic_altruist@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Tariffs are advertised as helping domestic companies.

      In actuality, they directly hurt foreign companies and the hope is that the unhurt domestics will then flourish.

      If the tariffs collected were used to simulate domestic companies, this would actually be possibly beneficial to the economy.

      However those tariffs are being pocketed by the rich (through tax cuts and money laundering through contracts and crypto).

      These should not be listed as tariffs costs, they should be listed for what it is: “amount Trump’s administration decided to steal from you based on your spending habits”

  • Fair Fairy@thelemmy.club
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    2 months ago

    Temu, taobao, alibaba all openly show 150% tariffs in their ui.
    Go try checking out.

    Amazon might hide it but it sells all the same products so not gonna deceive many

    • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I don’t think you understand how stupid the average person is. There is a decent chance this will all be biden inflation in their minds and not tariffs if there isn’t literally a thing that says “tariff charge” on it. Even then they will probably see that and think it’s just there to lie and hurt Trump

      • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        given how much tariffs have permeated the news and people’s bank accounts and retirement accounts I don’t think there’s much avoidance of the topic

  • The_Caretaker@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Trump has been bragging about how he would put tariffs on everything for a few years. Why is pointing out the tariffs he is bragging about an act of hostility towards him? You would think he would want his accomplishment to be pointed out.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You know, I never knew who any of Biden’s press secretaries were. They were never spouting insane bullshit, I guess.