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Another product on the Walmart site that spiked in price was a left-handed fishing reel. It rose from $57.37 to $83.26 from April to May, a jump of 45 percent, with a post on Reddit showing the two price stickers. Aisle Gopher's price history says that the price of the reel was $51.12 on March 14.

Another Reddit post showed an increase in the price of cocoa powder from $3.44 in May 2024 to $6.18 in April 2025.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Prepare your Trump "I did that" stickers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 180 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 184 points 1 week ago (17 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Critical thinking"? What is that? Let me just ask Gemini...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The fundamental problem with American politics is that you've got a party of callous, narcissistic far-right lunatics slavishly loyal to Capital that only knows how to lie, cheat, and be corrupt as all get out while the news media endlessly runs cover and gaslights the country into believing they're actually quite moderate and reasonable.

And then you've got the Republican Party coming in to replace them and make everything worse.

This isn't a problem of "Critical Thinking". This is a problem of the Bastions of Liberalism electing Gavin Newsom as Governor of the West Coast and Eric Adams as Mayor of the East Coast. And these are your top picks for President in 2028. Meanwhile, the furthest left-wing voices in the party are so utterly buck-broken that they can't admit they've once again kicked several billion dollars towards genocide. The moderate liberals in the purple states are vetoing wildly popular legislation that kinda-sorta prohibits price gouging in rental unit markets. The party leadership fully embraces cryptocurrency as a rich vein of fundraising cash. The conservative wing of the Ds is full on TERF

Think critically about the current state of the American political establishment and what you realize is that you're boxed in. Everyone of note is bought and paid for. The population is fully gaslit by a consent manufacturing machine running on overdrive. The best case scenario for someone of liberal disposition is that the government simply ignores you. The worst case is that gestapo punch through your door and drag you to an overseas prison to be tortured to death.

Republicans are frothing at the mouth for more, more, more. Democrats only know how to shrug, pocket more donor money, and tell you that Biden would have fixed everything if you'd just voted for him.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While it was a lie. I don't think he thought he was lying because he literally doesn't understand 5th grade math.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I think a narcissist like Donald honestly never thinks he's lying, but you make a solid point.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Is it not the voters fault though?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm just wishing the voters all the "winning" that they voted for.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You’re just jealous of our freedoms

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (17 children)
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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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."

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[–] nkat2112 69 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Most people/towns have no other option, All the big corps have taken down anything local, over the last 20-30 years.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

Tacoflation is going to hurt US consumers.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

Fascist bitch.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I spent more for groceries than I ever have before last week.

I'm not looking forward to the future.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Voroxpete 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

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)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

HE SAID SO.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

wow. The donvict lying? SAY IT ISN'T SO!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

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

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