I have a job at a large corporate retail store and we recently raised a lot of prices, mostly for things that haven’t been hit by tariffs yet. The owner is using the tariffs as an excuse to jack up prices for no reason. Even if all the tariffs were done away with tomorrow, corporate America is still going to jack up the prices.
Shit's getting real
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AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But have you thought about the shareholders?
D_C@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I have, and on a related note, I also think of guillotines.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 month ago
Why are they using anything imported anyways? All that the tariffs have done in my life so far is make me question what these "local" "American" companies have been doing. Mind you, two phrases have come back into my speech:
"No company is your friend, even if they make something you like." & " Silence, brand!"
Companies affected by the tariffs are now among the companies whose products I actively avoid.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Why are they using anything imported anyways?
Ah yes, let me just buy local from all of the American tea farms, American bauxite mines, and American aluminum refineries. Oh wait, America doesn’t actually produce meaningful amounts of any of those resources.
SW42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not to mention any part of the factory automation technology. Capacitors on the circuit board are made in Japan if they’re decent, motor windings from China, solenoids , the lot.
exu@feditown.com 1 month ago
The US imports lots of Aluminium and refines it into Aluminum
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
And most US sugar is foreign sourced.
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Why are they using anything imported anyways?
Could be just aluminum for the cans, doesnt have to be that they are importing anything just that suppliers are.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Guys…
The product is called Arizona Iced TEA. The main ingredient is… drumroll brewed tea.
How many tea-farms do you know of in the US? There are some small-scale ones, but only one large-scale one at 127 acres.
India has over 800 major estates and ~60,000 small tea gardens across the country
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 month ago
I don't exempt a company from doing something if their supplier does it. They're at least complicit.
scoobford@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Tea famously does not grow in the US.
Plus, they sell in aluminum cans, which probably are sourced from Canada or Mexico, or are made in the US from aluminum sourced from Canada or Mexico.
And of course all of their machinery requires upkeep using parts and chemicals which may or may not be made abroad.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s the raw goods that American companies need. Most American manufacturers assembly in the United States. So they have to raise prices because if the raw goods imported.
Trump is so dumb he doesn’t think past his tiny ass hands.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 month ago
If the companies were responsible with all that recycling we've been doing over the last half-century, they wouldn't need to import raw metal. We'd be able to reuse all that glass and metal.
I guess this might be the only way to get American consumers to understand that the point was always Reduce, reuse, and recycle in descending importance; rather than the other way around.
DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Tea absolutely can grow in the US, we just don’t grow much of it.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Today i learned that in the us arizona tea is extremely good and cheap, while here in europe you can only get it imported so its pretty expensive…
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also mediocre tasting sugar water
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 month ago
It’s so gross. People are always praising them for being so cheap, when it’s quite literally just sugar water that tastes like is was bottled 10 years ago
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Arizona Ice Tea isn’t good tea though?
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We’ll know we’re in trouble when Costco raises the price of the hotdog
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or the chicken.
wizzor@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Here in Finland it costs 3.50 in Eur…
Hubi@feddit.org 1 month ago
They are also pretty expensive here in Germany, though a few stores sell some select flavors for less than 1€.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Recession incoming
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 month ago
More like great depression 2.0
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Used to hate Arizona quite a bit because it felt super bougie and expensive for what’s essentially just a regular ice tea. Developed a taste for it over the years and like it quite a bit nowadays because it’s partly sweetened with stevia which makes it taste very pleasantly. Quite unfortunate that most of the flavours sold here aren’t vegan because they insist on 0,1% of honey in the ingredients
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Stevia can die in a fire. Some people can limit their sugar intake to healthy levels. Make something either diet or not. I dislike the taste of all artificial sweeteners, and its in regular too now with most drinks. With artificial sweeteners (but maybe not stevia) wrecking your gut biome and other problems, they’ve just added something unhealthy to drinks. A drink that would normally be OK to drink once in a while.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’m not an expert on artificial sweeteners, but as far as I know, they’re to be consumed in moderate amounts just like sugars are. And from what I’ve heard, stevia is among the better sweeteners compared to something like aspartame or maybe even sucralose. The mixing of sugar and a sweetener is not ideal, I think that’s true.
I’ll gladly be proven otherwise - don’t know enough about them tbh
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Vegans don’t eat Honey? Huh.
Makes sense when you think about it, tho.
fannymcslap@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why the fuck are vegans not eating honey? It’s nectar?
Please don’t tell me it’s to do with exploitation of insects.
Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why are you so aggressive in asking something? Do you expect people to help you like that?
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 month ago
💯
It has to do with the exploitation of insects.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Honeybees destroy ecosystems because they’re more efficient at pollination than wild bees are, so there’s an ecological nuance to abstaining from honey. Apart from that, there’s the ethical component of taking away food that the bees produce for themselves that’s not ours for the taking.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Don’t worry, they’ll be just as hypocritical as any other virtue-signaling group. Bees make honey, honey bad. But they’ll act like pollenators aren’t needed for crops or something. Or ignore that beekeepers will take their hives out to farms to pollinate various crops, like avocado. Or that bees seem to, on some level, understand that they have a great deal going. They’re not trapped in the hives; they could leave at anytime but don’t. And their honey production is higher than that of wild bees. And they have a higher survival rate because the beekeeper ensures they’re safe from predators, or from the elements, and from disease. Every beekeeper I’ve ever seen absolutely love their bees.
But the fun part, is not all vegans think like this. Because it’s a “contentious” topic among them. For one, why does anyone care what anyone eats? Like, as long as it’s not cannibalism, I don’t give a shit. But vegans, from what I gather, will “rank” themselves to other vegans to see who’s more vegan than the other. It really reminds me of the “church ladies”. The type who judge you for not being churchy enough, who brag about how much church they go to, how much they “do for the church”, a “higher than thou” mentality. Some vegans are closer to vegetarians, with just additional restrictions. So just like any group, it’s not all… it’s just a really loud minority that tries to speak for everyone.
Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
God forbid someone have empathy for living creatures.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 month ago
These fucking vegans care for insects now? That makes me so mad.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Picked a couple up for $0.78 yesterday at the local Mexican supermarket.
You know, the people our nation is actively persecuting.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Username checks out.
cattywampas@midwest.social 1 month ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Arizona tea was already $1.79 at most places around here before Trump even became president the first time. There’s pretty much only 1 store I can go and get them for the 99 cents advertised on the can, and they don’t eveb carry anything other than the Mucho Mango juice 😩
theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A lot of stores around here covered the .99 up with a store sticker 5 years ago, which I thought was blasphemy.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve seen them at $2 at gas stations
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I think you can report that to the company and they’ll still selling it to that place
StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nah if the company specifically contracts with Arizona to put their branding where the 99c would go they can do that. Circle K
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I make Southern sweet tea .yself from time to time. Amazing.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i don’t do the sugar anymore but damn i miss a good cup (okay gallon) of sweet tea
ur_ONLEY_freind@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Just got some at my local HEB, they’re still ¢87 there
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maaaaan I hate when I find out news through memes. Fucking hell. Moron-in-chief for sure.