At a sweltering New York mall, customers say they’re paying more as tariffs push up costs on goods such as t-shirts

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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve watched these imbeciles for decades, praising their Republican leaders for economies that Democrats spent 8 years rebuilding, only for those Republicans to tear it down again. Decades.

    Doesn’t help when we have lots of bothsiderists and WELLACKTUALLY types that do things like say “well, the market is only for rich people” etc., and acting like Biden really did have a bad economy just like Taco and his cult claim. These are tenuous claims, to be charitable about it. But I keep seeing the claim, over and over.