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.

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    46
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      19
      ·
      6 days ago

      Well, you see, the people who voted for him weren’t actually expecting lower prices, they were expecting racism, because they’re racists.

      So far he’s delivered on schedule.

      • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        6 days ago

        To be fair, there’s a portion of Trump voters that just believe him because they’re idiots who don’t pay attention to any news and lack even the most basic critical thinking skills. I know from firsthand experience as several of my family members are in this category.

        They’re not red hat wearers but voted for him because they’re poor and he said he’d make things cheaper. They’re surprisingly not racist, but their stupidity supports racism.

        • Deflated0ne@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          10
          ·
          6 days ago

          And most of them are socialists. I sat my reliably republican voting aunt down and had a discussion about policy. Point for point. Healthcare. Immigration. Labor. Even stuff like gay marriage. Point by point I proved to her that she was and always has been a socialist. But the instant the big scary S word left my mouth her pavlovian conditioning kicked in. I was a fool and an idiot. Didn’t know what I was talking about. etc.

          She shut down the convo.

          • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            9
            ·
            6 days ago

            God, the number of times I’ve painted things in Orange and Purple instead of Red and Blue and seen people ardently support the Orange argument, only to shut down in a brainwashed BSOD as soon as I replace the name tag…

    • iowagneiss@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      edit-2
      6 days ago

      I’ve actually seen them posting about eggs and only eggs now. They want to know why liberals aren’t talking about egg prices now. They’re ignoring the rest. They’re down to $3 a dozen or so, which is better, but it’s still at least double what they were not long ago.

      • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        6 days ago

        Most places in America, it’s about $3. Where I live, it cycles between $2.90 and $3.20. it’s about $3.09 today.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          11
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          7 days ago

          As a USian that just got back from world travel, the only freedom we have here that’s different from many places is the freedom from nasty-ass tobacco smoke EVERYFUCKINGWHERE. It’s the only freedom we have that’s better at home than elsewhere.

          Also the weed and beer are way better here.

          • doug@lemmy.today
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            8
            ·
            edit-2
            7 days ago

            I do think it’s ironic that a chunk of the places that have universal healthcare still have a massive smoking problem.

            I can’t help but wonder in a silver-linings-to-shit-stains kind of way if part of the reason smoking was curbed as much as it was in the states (aside from successful votes/lobbying) is because it’s too expensive to die from.

            • Squizzy@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              4
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              6 days ago

              I dont know, opiates arent cheap and you guys are nailing that shit. Your smokes did absolutely jump in price in a few years, it went from bringing loads home to bringing enough over to smoke on my trip.

              • doug@lemmy.today
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                3
                ·
                6 days ago

                hey now, at least we dehumanize and tuck our embarrassing drug addicts into the lower class neighborhoods and under bridges were they belong so we can ignore them easier! /s

          • Squizzy@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            6
            arrow-down
            3
            ·
            6 days ago

            US beer? As in beer in the US is better than beer somewhere else? Where did you travel to, Pakistan?

            • TehWorld@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              12
              ·
              6 days ago

              Did you miss out on the fact that you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting multiple microbreweries in the USA? I swear that one of my locals has a microbrewery inside of the microbrewery…

            • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              6 days ago

              Lmao I guess a Muslim country would be even worse, but no the two that stood out to me as sucking compared to home were Italy and France. I fully admit that I only had what was available at grocery stores. The prices in Europe definitely beat the pants off of US prices though. (Except I guess American swill like Coors or Steel Reserve etc. but I’m not sure those could even legally qualify as beer in the EU lmao)

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          13
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          7 days ago

          Yes, you are free to work. Now get back to it if you don’t want to starve or be harassed out of society and die homeless and alone with nobody caring.

  • Estradiol Enjoyer @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    6 days ago

    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

  • kautau@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    61
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      24
      ·
      7 days ago

      To be fair, it’s also because Newsweek is a joke of a magazine now that doesn’t have real journalists with those sorts of contacts anymore.

    • Buske@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      27
      ·
      7 days ago

      Most people/towns have no other option, All the big corps have taken down anything local, over the last 20-30 years.

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        7 days ago

        That’s true, I should have specified that for those with a choice on where they shop. But even in towns and cities where there are major retail/grocery alternatives, Walmarts tend to thrive.

      • kokolowlander@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        6 days ago

        Even if it was a local small business, they would be increasing price. Did you think they can absorb 30% tariff when their margin is single digits?

    • CalipherJones@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      6 days ago

      People in America care more about money than anything else. There could be a brand that kills children and as long as it’s cheaper it will be bought. Cough nestle cough

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        6 days ago

        That’s true nearly everywhere capitalism exists though, not just America. Nestle sales in Europe aren’t far behind their North America sales

  • mat dave@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    44
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 days ago

    TBF there is a cocoa shortage so the powder increase is expected. But there isn’t a Chinese fishing reel shortage, just dumb taxes.

  • acchariya@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    34
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    7 days ago

    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

    Edit: and US prices are not including Tax.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      6 days ago

      I just bought a whole suite of new appliances over here. I didnt realise I ws doing so well. Most wasshers and dryers here are front load, thats standard. Something else that came up on my travels is that you guys dont often have fans in your ovens, which would be very standard here.

      • phx@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        6 days ago

        The ones with fans would be “convection” ovens, which cost more this side of the pond

      • KMAMURI@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        6 days ago

        The oven fan drives me nuts. It allows them to sell stupid shit like air fryers. Put convection in my fucking oven and stop charging up to $1000 extra for the option.

        Also the combo washer dryer. I stayed with friends in Belgium for a month over 25 years ago. They had a front load washer/dryer. One appliance. We are now finally seeing these in North America but they suck balls and are really expensive.

        • Squizzy@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          6 days ago

          Oh I hate them combos, great in theory often poor in practice. They are usually in rental properties here, cheap and cheerful resolution.

          The ovens are crazy, no wonder the US have all these appliances. My oven steams and a dude on here would not believe me saying its not practical to have an industrial oven in my house.

          To be fair though we have a higher voltage residential supply too so you guys might not be able to as effectively use this shit.

          • KMAMURI@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            6 days ago

            It’s corporations. My stove runs on 220V as does my dryer. Aside from gas all of them do. It does exist but it is priced out of a normal person’s budget. These ovens exist only in homes where everyone eats out as generally those are the homes that can afford the extra expense. Or as that person told you previously, unless you purchase a commercial oven. Yay capitalism!

            • Squizzy@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              6 days ago

              Due ye have dual supply or step up?

              To be fair I got what I paid for, I paid shy of two grand for two full size ovens that include a steam and microwave function. We use them all the time. Do you guys have down draft hobs? Best thing I ever bought for the kitchen.

              • KMAMURI@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                edit-2
                6 days ago

                I’m not a typical North American. I have a full kitchen outside my house in an outbuilding that is fully set up as a commercial kitchen on three phase power. Inside my house I have typical shitty North American appliances. The “outdoor” kitchen is all second hand bought at auction commercial restaurant appliances. Gas stove tops. Commercial electric ovens. Vent hoods. The whole thing. It’s taken years and years to build up.

                We grow, forage and raise a lot of our own food and have a small galley style kitchen in our little house that just isn’t practical for large batch stuff like butchering and canning.

  • turtlesareneat@discuss.online
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    ·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • aceshigh@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      7 days ago

      What I have noticed is less and less items on sale. I mostly purchase sale stuff and I have slim pickings. I actually saved a flyer from a few months back and there’s a lot more on sale.

      • BakerBagel@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        7 days ago

        I’ve been buying the generic brands between Kroger and Walmart just passed on what i needed most this week. It’s always the cheapest anyway. I see zero reason to buy name brand flour, condiments, or canned foods. What killed me this week as buying kitty litter. That Was a massive increase. Fortunately i live 2 blocks away from the weekly farmer’s market, so i am gonna just start buying seasonal produce there this summer

        • unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          6 days ago

          I haven’t seen increased prices due to tariffs at all yet, but I haven’t been shopping lately for anything but groceries and other necessities. I actually bought kitty litter (Ökocat brand) last week and it was the same price as the last few times. Like you I buy almost exclusively store brands and I plan to hit up farmers markets this summer too. I’m also growing my own cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and corn.

    • w3dd1e@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      7 days ago

      Nah. They think this is a necessary sacrifice. They think they are soldiers in a war.