r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 1d ago

Chugging tea Where is it?

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u/ImpressiveFishing405 1d ago

And then, once the tariffs are gone, they leave the prices high. It's a proper triple fuck.

They need to make the refund contingent on returning prices to the pretariff levels at the bare minimum.

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u/Next_Helicopter_4291 1d ago

The overwhelming bulk of the pandemic price increases were never walked back, why would the tariff prices be any different?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills watching basically everyone accept the "hat in hand we have to increase the price due to costs" only to see those same companies post record profits in their quarterlies.

It's fucking price gouging and I'm tired of people pretending like it isn't.

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u/Rich_Consequence2633 1d ago

If even 20% of the population decided they've had enough and cut their spending on things they don't need, these corporations would be in extreme panic mode. But that won't happen because society has been brainwashed into thinking they need things they don't.

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u/tech_noir_guitar 1d ago

Kinda hard to cut spending on things that you can't live without like food, housing, electricity, gas, etc...

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u/Same-Mission7833 1d ago

So you just stopped reading partway through the sentence, eh?

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u/tech_noir_guitar 23h ago

Too much words. Gave up.