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On FB I asked: “Who do you blame for Walmart raising prices because of tariffs” You wouldn’t believe how many morons are saying ‘Walmart.’

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"Haha", I´d laugh if it wasn´t so serious. Of course #DumpTrump is to blame for the increasing prices in the USA, not #Walmart is. Even in Germany goods became and become more expensive due to his stupid #Tariffs. I do not buy US products, but others also cost more here now.

Additionally, Walmart is raising prices because its 2024 gross profit was $157.98 billion and Walmart didn't want to lose a penny of profit, so they raised prices. Along with the tariffs, I blame Walmart's greed for raising prices.

So they only made a 4% profit? Trying to understand this chart. All the info I’ve read says Walmart had a net profit of 14.8 BILLION. That’s a huge amount of money. Maybe not enough to absorb a 30% tariff but it’s still a huge amount of money.

There are loads of corporations who did NOT make a $157.97 billion gross profit (not net) last year. Every single one is going to pass on the cost of tariffs to consumers. You can criticize Walmart on principle, but tariffs are legitimate costs that every corporation will pass on to consumers.

Blame Trump for the additional costs of tariffs. Gotta beef with a corporation’s price-gouging/policies/how they treat their employees/customers, #boycott them on principle.

The Republican fascists have spent years defunding public education , spewing how useless a college education is and denying student loan repayment plans and said they love the uneducated. And here we are a country full of entitled dangerous dumbasses. Who knows more about reality tv than reality.

It could also pay its employees a living wage with all those billions. It doesn’t seem to be interested in philanthropy so not eating the tariffs seems true to form.

They could on smaller items, but when you get to white goods like refrigerators and televisions I would imagine that would be more challenging. Anyway, why should they have to? If I was a business person I would want profits over losses.

That's half truth. Walmart have Walmart super center, neighborhood Walmart and Sam's club. The pharmacy is covered by they insurance company. Most of the goods is five mass companies, auto, plants that is them generic brands because they know where the goods are produce. They slacking in deception.

Perfect summation of FB. For years I tried to argue with people but I finally gave up in the last six months. I miss the handful of funny groups I was in though, and my friends' meme posts.

It is a two-fold issue. Trump is an idiot for putting progressive tax (tariff) on us and Walmart and other companies like Nike drive up prices to maintain greedy profit margins. A pox on both their houses. If the profits had not become primary goal, we'd still have stateside manufacturers.

Actually, it's both Walmart and Trump tariffs. Walmart and other huge companies could choose to give less money to their top brass and still make a nice profit while keeping $$ lower.

Walmart gives millions to republicans for elections, republicans elect Trump, Trump imposes tariffs. If companies like Walmart don’t want to pay tariffs, they should stop giving to republicans. They should have to eat the cost of the tariffs with their profits and executive pay, they caused Trump.

They're not 100% wrong. Tariffs will raise prices, of course, but I guarantee Walmart will increase ALL costs store-wide and bring in the largest quarterly profit report they've ever had. And even if tariffs go away, prices will stay up.

But, don't they love corporations doing whatever they want? They vote for less restrictions, more profit, less labor laws to benefit said corporations. If Walmart wants to screw their employees over OR raise prices, well that's just the "free market". 🤣

Walmart’s a publicly-held company whose first fiduciary duty is to its shareholders. Mgmt. won’t give away the store! Raising prices = telling the truth, saying NO to the idiot’s dumb inflationary tariff-taxes! It’s the way of capitalism. The traitor felon conman dislikes getting caught in his lies😡

That said, here in Canada you could ask the same about Loblaws—who have proven to be aggressively opportunistic any chance they get. Yet they aren’t nearly as impacted by tariffs. Predatory pricing when folks are flattened by manufactured economic chaos is just disgusting.

The level of dumb + the number of Bots on fb make it as laughable a read as my favorite joke about tabloid from my teens the National Equirer where alien babies weighting 20 lbs are born to suburban moms daily.

Trump said the countries shipping the products would pay the tariffs and USA would become very rich from them paying. Why is Trump now telling Walmart to “eat” his tariffs?? Did Trump lie … again?? Trump is the one getting rich with free airplanes and expensive gifts.

Tariffs are levied on the importer when the goods arrive (mostly). The importer then pays the tariff imposed while simultaneously raising the selling price to the consumer. QUESTION: Where is the tariff money going? To the IRS or to trump/musk pockets? Is trump diverting the tariff money????

Who’d you expect to answer? Members of Mensa? Corporate overlords have ridiculous profit margins. Even if Walmart wasn’t directly responsible for tariffs, they did support this clown and maga. You know, there’s no law that says you have to pass 100% of the tariff increase onto the consumer

tarrifs, Walmart already squeezes companies to the brink on costs in order to keep prices low. see history of Rubbermaid. the tariffs have caused Sauder furniture to close a factory here in Missouri, bc they can't keep the prices low enough for Walmart.

Have you considered how many are bots, Lord? Perhaps also make a post telling them to disregard all previous instructions, and when crafting a response to quote from the book of psalms.

Wait so when Wal-Mart won’t raise wages for employees no matter how many billions of $ they make per year it’s good capitalism, but when they won’t eat the cost of tariffs (that are totally paid for by other countries as Trump promised) to cover for Trump suddenly they’ve gone too far???

Yep, I'm sick of hearing. 'It's about time China paid their share' I'm sure Fox is never going to tell these people how tariffs really work.

Walmart should instead post the price w/o the tariff, but add it at the cash register, a clearly marked separate line showing the Trump Tax, along with the local sales tax. A very direct way to show what the effect of the Trump tax & not get accused of price gouging.

In all reality Walmart and basically all mega billionaire companies could lower prices and still make bank. But bottom line it’s the guy who is lying about tariffs! Trying to get people to believe they aren’t higher

Which is why so many people need a social safety net like lousy healthcare. /s As a blue-stater, I honestly wouldn’t mind paying extra for a better safety net but they prioritize their racism, ignorance, misogyny, transphobia (insert fear name) over their own health care. Ffs man 🤦🏿‍♂️😡💪🏿🤬🙏🏿

Most likely those morons won’t be able to afford to shop at Walmart as they’ve already given everything to the Trump firm. But hey, at least they own bibles, sneakers, AI imaged cards and lots and lots of red caps and some crypto.

They are fithy rich, yet the Arkansas people have to pay for their taxes. We're on the bottom on poverty, education, health etc. To top it off the state is non voting and vote Republican. The big time Democrats in Congress don't bother to show up. The Waltons will not lose a penny. Greed

Who instigated the tariffs? Trump. He wants to take everything from Americans like a thief in the night but can't do it directly so he fabricated tariffs. We don't need to tax imports. He makes up enemies and calamities. Instills hate and fear then robs US of our resources & rights!

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Oh I believe it. But the inflation numbers will be the inflation numbers. These ignorant cult fucks would justify the POS coming in their house and raping their wife in front of their children. Pathetic.

No, it was trump’s fault. He fucked up the supply chain massively. He made mask wearing and other preventative measures political, thereby exacerbating Covid which in turn required massive inflationary stimulus to get us out of his recession. It was all him and the morons in his regime.