Walmart announced plans to raise prices on some products in May as a result of President Donald Trump's tariffs.
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.
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
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.
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.)
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
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.
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.
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.