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parineumtoday at 12:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

Plenty of companies didn't change their prices and ate the tariffs.


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firejake308today at 2:02 AM

Right, this is what I remember seeing. Overall, inflation didn't increase much last year even after the tariffs because a lot of companies had stockpiled inventory and were able to postpone the price increase. Seems like that bet paid off, and now they should ideally be able to get their money back without increasing prices.

Obviously there were some companies who did raise prices because of tariffs, but I'm saying that on average, they must not have since inflation didn't go up by 15%

Larrikintoday at 2:12 AM

Can you name any? Everything I purchased went up in a price, even if some of the better ones tried to hold out for a couple months.

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