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White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ for reportedly planning to list tariff costs
(www.theguardian.com)
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That’ll get the people grumbling.
Walmart should also do this.
Grocery stores too.
Thoughts on how to make this happen:
Whenever a shopowner is already critical of Trump, call them and suggest it directly.
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.
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).
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.
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."