recorded record profits in their 3rd quarter. Never let a crisis stop you from gouging your customers.

When asked about rather large increases at Lowes, employees had a scripted response, always the same, mumbling about 'supply chain problems'. Was noticing this BEFORE covid and even before that huge ship got stuck and blocked the Suez Canal, backing up shipping for weeks.

It has been one excuse after another to justify unjustifiable jumps in costs to consumers. People just don't pay attention and seem to have galloping amnesia about everything. The corporations are making consumers into indentured servants and damned few people seem to notice.

There will be no actual nations soon, only Corporate Princes and War Lords. Hello Dark Ages Part Deux.

Wal-mart and Lowe’s buy huge amounts of stuff from China and there is no way they are just going to absorb the costs of a 60% import tariff.

FAR above the tariff amount.

It's dark humor for sure, but I'll take what I can get.

unless it's on Faux, OAN, Newsmax, etc., they will not hear anything.

The corporate overlords got us by the shorts now dont they?

What I want is difficult to source and it may be that I won’t be able to get it before Jan. 20. Not the end of the world, I have a good stove now. But MAGAts sure are a stupid bunch. Orange jeebus is coming for them too.

my spending is now on foreign products but I have already cut my domestic spending and starting inaugural day the foreign stuff is shut off too.

Trumpflation here we come.

morning, noon and night. Soon everyone will know that it is Biden's fault.

This ruse of "tariffs" means inflation is unstoppable, so everybody jump in. The greed-flation water is fine!

Works. The refrigerator is only 6 years old. But this weekend I ordered a new one from Costco. I didn’t want to buy because it was so close to Xmas but this knowing the tariffs are going to make prices go up when the dumpy gets back in I made the purchase. Plus I brought a new laptop for my son to have on hand just in case. He goes through them every year and a half.

And the best part I went to a major retailer and the refrigerator was $1700 plus set up and haul away of the old one which was going to cost me $300. I wrote down the model number to do research and check the ratings and was going back to buy it the next day. I came home and in my mail found a mailer from Costco about a sale on appliances. So I looked up on their website and the same refrigerator was $1000 that included delivery, installation and haul away. At the end, I also brought three water filters and the final price was $1250!

Don’t wait buy now those big ticket items you need.

Not that I want to buy another person's problems, but I'll never be able to afford "new" again.

“Want Lower Prices? Vote Trump” is what they said.

How does it feel to be hoodwinked by the world’s most notorious con man, suckers?

to think that corporate whores like Trump and Musk give a FUCK about "lower prices"

Last big planned project is new flooring. Hope to get it done by early January for same reasons. Hopefully nothing else major crops up, but we all know it does, so I’ll deal with that then and not borrow trouble.

And yes, price gouging. When I got my siding redone in 2022, my contractor told me there was no issue getting products but that prices were not nearly coming down like he thought it would by then. He was shocked.

This is the corporate overlords plan

Small family owned mom and pop shops can in no way compete with the big guns. The tarriffs will kill them and out they go.

The big guys ride it out and survive. Even with tarriffs their prices will be lower

Corporate Darwinism

Soon you will be buying everything from dentures to your kids braces from big corporations

That’s what Musk and his pals want