• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This is such a weird and obvious denial of reality. Walmart doesn’t have 30% margins on everything. Does Trump think he can get people to blame Walmart for price increases instead of himself? The Trump crowd loves Walmart.

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      2 months ago

      Obviously this entire situation is insane from many perspectives, but strictly speaking, it’d be 30% added to the cost of acquiring merchandise, rather than the overall margin. The price of goods is a small fraction of Walmart’s overall expenses, compared to logistics and freight, labor, real estate, shrink and such. The actual impact to margins is probably more like 10% or so. Which is simultaneously both something Walmart could probably eat, and more than the Walton family is willing to swallow.

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        2 months ago

        And it would be a shame to waste such a good opportunity to raise prices by 30% anyway and go “shucks, tariffs”.