As temperatures soared on a sweltering July day in New York City, shoppers at Queens’s largest mall said they were feeling the heat – of rising prices.
“T-shirts, basic t-shirts, underwear, the basic necessities – the prices are going up,” said Clarence Johnson, 48, who was visiting the Macy’s at the Queen Center mall to pick up shirts he ordered online.
As Donald Trump presses on with his trade wars, retailers have been passing price increases onto customers. Department stores – which rely on a variety of imported goods and materials, from shoes to t-shirts – have particularly been scrambling to deal with the flux in prices.
My strongly republican coworker was gloating about prices coming down back in February and was actively looking for houses to retire to in Florida and Texas. Now she insists on doing company shopping at Aldi because “Shoprite has just gotten too ridiculously expensive.” A couple weeks ago she admits to me, “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to stop working now.”
Aww… No shit… Welcome to the club… We can’t afford matching t-shirts.
If she wants to retire someday, maybe she should vote for people who agree with her, instead of people who call her a parasite for wanting to retire on her own retirement savings, even though they are obscenely wealthy, and take breaks from their leisure time to check on the work that they pay others to do.
I often wonder what goes through the heads of such types - do they honestly think all the people in their lives that might have told them that Republicans are not the ones to help them in this regard, do they just think they are lying to them? Do they just not want to understand this?