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.

  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    As if a man who bankrupted a casino

    Oh, not just a casino, multiple!

    Dug up from a previous post and updated:

    Mango Mussolini’s failed businesses:

    • At least four failed building ventures
    • Had a failed “university”
    • Failed vodka business (how hard is that, right?)
    • Failed steak business
    • Failed airline
    • Failed board game
    • Failed casinos in Atlantic City (how do you fail at running multiple businesses that only exist to hoover up money?)
    • Failed magazine
    • Failed luxury travel organization
    • Failed mortgage company
    • Failed presidency that took Pres. Biden’s administration most of their entire term to fix. We’re talking documents that are gone, departments that are deleted, abject chaos that had to be rebuilt from scratch in some cases.
    • And soon, a failed wireless “carrier” on T-Mobile with an “American-made” phone made in “Chyyna”.

    Successes:

    • Had mommy’s money to get him going
    • Had 5 successful buildings built, mostly in the 1980s
      • At least three of them had fraudulent financial statements, inflated valuations, and inflated tax losses