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
Are we feeling great again yet? 200% cost of goods sure feels great for the company stockholders.
Prepare your Trump “I did that” stickers.
Oh so that’s how they work…
meh, shop at costco and aldi. never going back to wally world after they kissed the ring.
We make more money, and they just raise prices even further.
There must be a better solution.
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.)
He has lied repeatedly and vociferously his whole life, and anyone with critical thinking capacity knows/has known that. There is a lot to blame for this situation, Trump voters and all non-voters should not be immune from accepting their share of it.
“Critical thinking”? What is that? Let me just ask Gemini…
The fundamental problem with American politics is that you’ve got a party of callous, narcissistic far-right lunatics slavishly loyal to Capital that only knows how to lie, cheat, and be corrupt as all get out while the news media endlessly runs cover and gaslights the country into believing they’re actually quite moderate and reasonable.
And then you’ve got the Republican Party coming in to replace them and make everything worse.
This isn’t a problem of “Critical Thinking”. This is a problem of the Bastions of Liberalism electing Gavin Newsom as Governor of the West Coast and Eric Adams as Mayor of the East Coast. And these are your top picks for President in 2028. Meanwhile, the furthest left-wing voices in the party are so utterly buck-broken that they can’t admit they’ve once again kicked several billion dollars towards genocide. The moderate liberals in the purple states are vetoing wildly popular legislation that kinda-sorta prohibits price gouging in rental unit markets. The party leadership fully embraces cryptocurrency as a rich vein of fundraising cash. The conservative wing of the Ds is full on TERF
Think critically about the current state of the American political establishment and what you realize is that you’re boxed in. Everyone of note is bought and paid for. The population is fully gaslit by a consent manufacturing machine running on overdrive. The best case scenario for someone of liberal disposition is that the government simply ignores you. The worst case is that gestapo punch through your door and drag you to an overseas prison to be tortured to death.
Republicans are frothing at the mouth for more, more, more. Democrats only know how to shrug, pocket more donor money, and tell you that Biden would have fixed everything if you’d just voted for him.
That’s why a total Revolution is the only actual solution. If the Democrats wanted to try reform they would be acting completely different. They foreclose that possibility
That’s why a total Revolution is the only actual solution.
Total Revolution is difficult and requires a very active, committed group of supporters acting both within and outside the administration. Absolutely something you want to aim for, but often the product of generations of struggle.
You could, for instance, argue that the current Trump/DOGE government is a kind of (counter-)revolution that is finally overturning the Progressive Era of liberal democratic government. But this was a project that played out over decades, with each new wave of outsiders agitating and being rebuffed and regrouping to try again, while moderates on the inside cleared more and more space for radicals to infiltrate and overturn the New Deal and the Warren Court.
If the Democrats wanted to try reform they would be acting completely different.
The deeply unsettling and grisly truth is that Democrats are as much a part of the Trump/DOGE government as the Republicans. Liberals demand a return to Clinton-Era governance and Chuck Schumer responds by posting taco memes while complaining about Trump being weak on Iran. They have been as much a force in moving our country towards fascism as the Republicans, through constantly splitting and vilifying the progressive opposition while holding out deceitful promises of reforms they never planned to implement.
Like, we’re in the midst of a Revolution. It’s just not the kind folks on this site want.
and anyone with critical thinking capacity knows/has known that
I’d love to see this same perspective voiced with equal indignation when Joe Biden campaigns with black people and pledges support for BLM, but then doubles down on militarizing the police once elected. (Among other outright lies.)
Trump voters and all non-voters should not be immune from accepting their share of it.
Absolutely not. If you want people to vote for you, you have to give them something to vote for. Despite knowing the deep unpopularity of Biden’s presidency and campaign, the Democrats crowned a weak candidate (wait no, two weak candidates really) who promised to change nothing about it. If we’re being reasonable here, one has to credit Democrats’ outright stupidity and obstinance in the face of a base demanding real change.
Protest non-voter apologia, excuses, and mental gymnastics
Some day, maybe, they’ll take responsibility for their own actions. Today is not that day.
Much like the Democrats who told poor people that they should, you know, just be joyful about it.
Then again, to take responsibility would require some introspection.
If you don’t understand the concept of harm reduction, that’s your defect, not anybody else’s!
You voted for something much worse. You can try to explain it however you want, the facts are, you collectively over the years made it so your choices are meh and sometimes much much worse, and then voted for the latter.
You of course can blame whoever you want, deep state, establishment, democratic party (never republicans though, for some reason), but that would be the deflection. Up until recently, US had a shitty but semi-functioning democracy, and whatever is happening is a result of your collective chosing.
Joe Biden’s left testicle could be removed from his body, and it would run a better presidential term than trump
And this doesn’t mean Biden is a nice guy or represents something good, it’s just the less terrible option
Joe Biden was a genocide monster. The problem is that the entire Overton window of politicians the system will actually let get elected in America is composed entirely of genocidal monsters
It would be the first leftist in the Oval Office since FDR.
one has to credit Democrats’ outright stupidity and obstinance in the face of a base demanding real change.
They’re beholden to the same forces of campaigning and capital in a first-past -the-post system. If they wanted change that matters, their financial backers pull out.
So how’s their strategy working out for them?
There are two groups at fault here:
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The protest voters refusing to take the simplest action to prevent what is now happening.
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The people who said “we’re not going to try to change or improve anything because we’re running against a literal dictator so it’s not like we have to actually try to improve people’s lives. What are they going to do? Let Hitler win?”
So how’s their strategy working out for them?
For the privileged classes, it’s working out splendidly. For now anyway.
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That, as they say, is a choice.
The modern horseshoe of leftists and rightest being okay to burn the country down if it does swing far enough on the political pendulum. This shit right here folks. If I don’t get my way, I’m gonna burn the whole house down. The future is so bright for all of us get to burning it you little pussy.
You say that is if the status quo isn’t actively burning the country down
That dipshit’s not “the left;” he’s a troll. Real leftists held their noses and voted for Democrats.
While it was a lie. I don’t think he thought he was lying because he literally doesn’t understand 5th grade math.
I think a narcissist like Donald honestly never thinks he’s lying, but you make a solid point.
Is it not the voters fault though?
No, it’s not.
It’s the fault of the Democrats, who had an abundance of information about the unpopularity of Biden and his presidency, and then made a series of awful decisions about the presidential campaign, not the least of which being nominating a weak candidate who prioritized Biden’s ego over appealing to voters.
You also cannot tell voters who’ve been getting poorer while you’ve ruled that you won’t change anything, and definitely shouldn’t tell them to be joyful about it.
Wow. You’re in the same Olympics as the Republicans with these mental gymnastics.
Respectfully, you can try to gaslight me or cast aspersions, but my eyes actually function. Thank you.
Do they though?
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They’re booing you for telling the truth
It’s the voters fault and the democratic party’s
Is it not the voters fault though?
It’s the fault of the Democrats
…and…
You also cannot tell voters who’ve been getting poorer while you’ve ruled that you won’t change anything,
The opponent promised all kinds of things to voters who had been getting poorer, most of those promises were straight up fantasy, while others were distorted mistruths.
In your mind, do you think voters are free from have any responsibility for critical thinking? If a known liar is lying to you and you take action supporting those lies, should you be responsible when the lies are indeed shown to be lies?
and definitely shouldn’t tell them to be joyful about it.
This is the second time you’ve used this exact same language. Can you cite the source where you’re saying Democrats told people they should be joyful?
If a known liar is lying to you and you take action supporting those lies, should you be responsible when the lies are indeed shown to be lies?
If I’m starving to death, and the most trustworthy man in the world says “I will do nothing to help you” while the most dishonest man in the world (Donald Trump) says “I will shower you with more food than you have ever seen in your life” I’m going to take my chances with the dishonest man. Maybe the lie is how much but there will still be something. Better than a guaranteed nothing.
If I’m starving to death, and the most trustworthy man in the world says “I will do nothing to help you” while the most dishonest man in the world (Donald Trump) says “I will shower you with more food than you have ever seen in your life” I’m going to take my chances with the dishonest man. Maybe the lie is how much but there will still be something. Better than a guaranteed nothing.
Except its not a “better than a guaranteed nothing”. The liar didn’t just not shower you with food, he stripped you of what little clothing you had left, and threw you out in the desert to die faster, and he even has a history of that, so its not like you didn’t know the liar was capable of it.
Best case scenario with the honest man: he does nothing and I starve to death. Worst case scenario with the lying man: I starve to death anyway. May as well try changing things.
Sure, maybe I starve to death faster, but you give most people a choice between “100% chance you starve to death” and “99% chance you starve to death and 1% chance you don’t” and they will take the 1% chance.
At least the lying man admits there’s a fucking problem. “Everything is fine and nothing needs to change” was not a good strategy.
Best case scenario with the honest man: he does nothing and I starve to death. Worst case scenario with the lying man: I starve to death anyway. May as well try changing things.
With the lying man, as in my example, you won’t starve to death, you’ll die from exposure long before you die of starvation. If you’re seeing dying much sooner as direct result of his actions as an equal outcome, I’m not sure what to tell you.
At least the lying man admits there’s a fucking problem.
He’s not admitting there’s a problem, he saying whatever he thinks you want to hear to give him your vote. This man stiffed his own employees and contractors on a regular basis. On what evidence in his entire life, did you arrive at the conclusion that rich donald trump wanted to do anything at all to improve the life of people like us? Not words. Actions.
We don’t have to speak in theoreticals though. trump won. Are you glad he got voted in? Is your life better now? Or is this now worse than under Biden?
Por que no dos?
I’m just wishing the voters all the “winning” that they voted for.
That’s what I love about my fellow Americans: the willingness to unironically cheer poverty, authoritarianism, and fascism as long as the machinery of government appears to be directed at your perceived enemies.
Thank fuck I’m not American. You guys made you bed. You can rot in it.
Always love it when people double-down on a myopic, uninformed, and ignorant point of view. Thank you for sharing.
yawn You’re just an agitator
Donald lied repeatedly
No It Won’t
No it won’t.
It just won’t. None of that will happen.
You’re getting worked up over nothing. Everything is going to be fine. So just relax, okay? You’re really overreacting.
Nah fam, blaming the voters.
Trump wasn’t some “We never knew what he was like”, we had him as president for four years, and yet somehow in four years we went through a fugue state and reelected him as a country. So… yea… blaming the voters on this one. ANYONE surprised is a mouth breathing idiot.
Why would we not blame the voters?
Ignorance is not an excuse. We should not normalize that.
They were told, repeatedly, by everyone, including every economist in existence, that tariff’s would be a tax on consumers. They didn’t listen, because they’re fucking assholes.
This guy has already lied to them many, many, many times over. They didn’t learn either because they’re unbelievably stupid, or committed to hurting others so much that they chose to turn a blind eye to the lies.
Of course I’m blaming the voters.
I mean, that’s like claiming that he lied repeatedly and vociferously that jumping in the pool will not lead to getting wet. There is no way to believe that lie aside from deep, deep ignorance.
capitalism leads to price increases. tariffs taxes fees … all a part of capitalism
Thanks, universe, for not letting me spawn in the USA…
You’re just jealous of our freedoms
*fiefdoms
We have freedoms?
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.
Free to shop at the company store.
You’re free to pay me for the privilege to zuck deez nutz.
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.
I’m sorry but Canada has clean air acts, great craft beer, and way better weed (on average). I say this as someone who grew up in the US
Yea I can’t disagree with any of that (although I am a wimp in the cold).
(although I am a wimp in the cold).
it’s 18°C here, and I’m frozen. No way i’d ever survive in Canadia.
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.
I’m betting the biggest factor in smoking falling out of favor is the taxes most places started placing on a pack.
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.
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
US beer? As in beer in the US is better than beer somewhere else? Where did you travel to, Pakistan?
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)
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…
Yeah the microbrewery scene is where it’s at. American macrobrews blow.
Everywhere has microbreweries, anywhere someone can say the beer sucked can be replied to the same.
Free dumbs.
Nah. They resent us because we don’t have
high quality, affordable healthcaresOcIaLiSm.
The politics suck here, but there are far worse places. At least it’s not South Sudan.
There are only two places on Earth:
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Countries called the US
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Countries the US is planning to invade next
You’ve got some catching up to do then.
Pink is countries the UK has invaded. Purple is everyone else.
Wow, the labour government needs to pick a fight with Belarus.
If you think colonialism is unique to the US I have a continent to sell you.
Is it Africa?
Ooof, sorry that one’s actually only available in our combo deal.
Nah, I’m from Germany… The US would never… You know… We are friends… //throws history book out of the window//…
Honestly, the history books will make America friendlier towards you. After all, where do you think the Nazis got their inspiration?
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Walmart Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey previously told Newsweek: “As we look ahead, while operating conditions are expected to remain dynamic, our strategy is clear, our top-line momentum is strong, and we are flexing into our advantages to protect margins as we grow.”
“Look, lord knows what our fuckwit President will do next, but our plan is clear. While our profits continue to be strong, we’ll use our heft to squeeze suppliers and our near monopoly in rural areas to squeeze customers. In any case, we’ll protect our bottom line and continue to grow.”
They’re the only store in many places so they are in a good position to raise prices. The big question is if their customers can afford to buy anything anymore.
They could barely afford it before. The scary question is what they’ll do when they realize how screwed they are.
Lemmy is big on making fun of “forever growth”. But that’s how the world has always worked, there is no ideal steady state. We Americans are within a couple of years of slamming into the brick wall of “can’t buy shit”.
Nothing will save us but straight raping the rich for what they’ve done to us. And since they’ve bought and paid for all the mechanisms to claw back even a morsel, too late. There will quickly come a time when they can no longer be their own best customers. We provide the labor, value and purchasing power.
I commend these employees for posting the price increases.
Despite TACO Don’s lies, really, we all knew this was coming. It’s good to have validation, regardless.
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.
Most people/towns have no other option, All the big corps have taken down anything local, over the last 20-30 years.
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?
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.
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.
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
That’s true nearly everywhere capitalism exists though, not just America. Nestle sales in Europe aren’t far behind their North America sales
Tacoflation is going to hurt US consumers.
Good. Let’s get my mother the cheaper groceries she wanted.
Fascist bitch.
My mother in law, a religious Walmart shopper and Qanon adherent, won’t stop bitching about her grocery bill. Fucked around, found out, still not getting a single neuron to fire across the gap. I think she’s just eating packs of crayons.
Liberal: “Haha, stupid conservatives, now we’re all going to drown together, you idiot.”
Conservative: “Fucking smug liberals, I’m going to put another big hole in this boat, just to show them.”
Leftist: “Shit! Fuck! Guys, please let’s not drown. We need to come together as working people and fight to reclaim the boat we’ve all worked so hard to build.”
Liberal/Conservative In Unison: “God damn Tankies. This is all their fault. Let’s throw’m overboard.”
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.
Shitler has a nice ring to it btw.
I like Clown Prince.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Closest I’ve seen where I live is 2.50
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.
Goddamn, we’re at around $4.10-4.20 per gallon here. Same as Hawaii, 33% more than NYC. Gotta love the PNW.
TBF there is a cocoa shortage so the powder increase is expected. But there isn’t a Chinese fishing reel shortage, just dumb taxes.
There’s actually been a huge increase in lefties, and they demand fishing reels.
More specifically, there’s now a generation of people who didn’t get their ass beat for using their left hand (this was surprisingly common up through the fucking 90s in some places) and now they want leisure goods that are left-hand-capable.
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The lefties yearn for the reel
