Welp, one thing you can’t find for sale on Amazon is balls.
Amazon is playing a role here for the administration. They were never going to do this.
Yup. The cynic in me says this was all a big show to deter any other marketplace from getting the same idea. Trump will threaten you if you talk too loud about tarrifs.
My inner cynic adds: Amazon also realized if they didn’t separate the tariffs, they could raise the prices higher and make extra profit. As long as it’s “Prime” and “arrives tomorrow” people will still click.
The billionaires are in a cartel with Trump and Musk at the helm.
So you all like your protests.
Wouldn’t this be a great time to stage massive boycotts and protests to force Amazon to do this. This is seriously something that would really be a strategic win that you can accomplish with your protest powers. Like why does no one ever organize this stuff. What’s scarier to Amazon then having people fucking abandon it enough to impact share prices. This is your wheel house you fucks. You have the chance to do something really funny.
An update on this. I’m seeing Walmart get caught up in this. I’m seeing people asking other stores to do the same. I think people want this enough it can become a huge headache for them.
I did turn off my Amazon renewal for next month, I don’t really care if it makes a difference in their bottom line, but my money doesn’t support this shit if I can help it.
Do you (or anyone who might know the actual numbers) think this would do anything? The people in the US would boycott Amazon by not shopping on it, cancelling Prime etc. but that’s not really where Amazon as a company makes their money.
AWS is Amazon’s primary revenue generator now as I understand it and the retail portion of the business is more akin to a side gig in terms of numbers. Anybody with a better grasp wanna chime in?
The report drew the ire of the White House, which called Amazon’s reported plans a “hostile and political act.”
“Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt asked.
I guess showing that the price had increased by 4% isn’t as big of a deal than 35%?
40 years? I guess thats a pretty big lie, also Bezos likes to eat Donalds ass.
More like there isn’t an inflation surcharge, because that’s not how inflation works. Inflation is just a bunch of sellers raising their prices in general, not a defined policy.
Just because Amazon doesn’t do it, doesn’t mean other small business shouldn’t.
If you have costs and customers are getting angry. Simply put the tariff charge on the receipt and point to it. Amazon can eat the tariff costs, just pay the C-Suite less for 4 years. They won’t, but they can. Small businesses can’t do that shit.
