Port of L.A. executive director says retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left amid U.S.-China trade war

Its also what the stores voted for. Almost every major corporation wanted Trump and heavily lobbied for him to get in. News outlets, grocery chains, retail stores, tech companies, every large corporation wanted this.

Unfortunately, it seems this needs to happen to wake people the fuck up.

Another article today about people literally having no concept of why the websites they're shopping on is suddenly way more expensive (and explicitly showing the tariff costs).

People are surprised by this, and many of them have literally never even heard the word "tariff" before.

lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular

Nah. We've already seen businesses implementing digital price tags for just this occurrence.

Your stores will stay stocked. You're just going to see merch doubling and tripling in price as inventory depletes.

Eventually, you'll walk into a store, see a single pair of jeans on the rack, and read a $1000 price tag on it because it's the last pair of that style in 20 miles.

i heard the shore employees are going to lose thier jobs the moment it stays empty.

And that's just from the Tariff effects. When you count hoarders scalpers people stealing from trucks fromwarehouses and everything else it's going to get really crazy. And people are going to start hoarding things that aren't getting tariffed because they don't want to find out the hard way

Make it "republican tax". This is not trump tax

the last time was also conservative caused too.

I recently bought a small generator that charges via solar panel. With weather events getting more severe each year, and my boyfriend needing a sleep apnea machine, it seemed a good idea to get a portable source of power that's completely off the grid.

I don't know what's going to be happening in the near future, but I figured I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and be unable to get it due to scarcity and potentially-dramatic price increases.

There is no price gouging in U.S.A.

No bread, no circus. The first already happened a while ago, but losing the second shows a possible hilarious miscalculation from Trumps lot. The blowback is going to be interesting. Though I also worry it's a way to force people out in the streets as they are laying the groundwork for unrest.

Literally anything imported. Which is virtually everything.

Baby care items are going to get hit hard.

Clothing, but, tbh, I expect that need to be flexible. I personally could ride out a few years just repairing my items. Pants are what I expect to run out of first--the bottoms give out and that is beyond my repair skills.

I have a few more bags of coffee than I normally would, because caffeine makes things better and we don't grow that here. I have a bit of chocolate.

I really don't know what will be in short supply. I didn't want to hoard stuff I won't use, but I don't want to run out of stuff I need.

Anything that's coming from China, the other terrorists are on pause right now but with Donald Trump you just never know. There's also a lot of things that are made in America but the parts are sourced from China, in whole or in part. That being said once Panic buying sets in I expect even things that aren't terrorists to start being price hiked and go missing from shells I people who don't know the difference and don't want to find out the hard way

think of shit people actually need.

band aids? China

Peroxide and Rubbing alcohol? China

gauze? China

IV tubing and equipment? China

This ain't a, "I can't buy fruitless shit anymore" kinda crisis.

It's the big one, homie.