Crime Consumer prices show significant jump in January

[Cajun]

Right, so all things being equal, would you raise your price and boost margins before tariffs start pinching, or wait until months after?

Not if it meant losing bids to competitors. It needs to be an actual change that we can count on or it will hurt us.

Except for a lot of products, you can't squeeze out more volume, unless you have a production advantage compared to competitors (ie you assembly in Mexico, they assemble in China). Keep in mind a lot of companies were stockpiling in January as insurance (plus factoring in Chinese New Year disruptions), which means suppliers would be able to charge more in a lot of cases.

Yeah we manufactured here. So do competitors as the end product was hundreds of thousands of lbs and transportation becomes a thing. So all things being equal we would do ourselves a disservice unless competitors also did. If they did this too early the our volume on winning would make us profitable even at lower margins. Its all a balance.

The latter is possible but keep in mind that January is an important time of the year, everyone is finalizing bids for Q2 resets and most companies are doing sales kickoffs and locking in plans for the year.

Fair

Eggs is whatever, that's out of the control of any government for now, outside of structural failures like too much industry consolidation. We'll see what happens as the quarter unfolds, but most businesses do not wait until the ink dries to adjust strategy. You're acting like businesses were giving it a 25% tariffs went up, when in reality most of them worked off the assumption that there was an 80% chance or whatever of higher tariffs.

No I'm saying that you lose out on too many jobs if you do something too early. Sales goals are the same for companies in these times but the margin obv can fluctuate. I don't know their thinking. Trump already had his tariffs in place that Biden kept so it was unknown. I would not have lost jobs waiting on whether he was going to increase them and to the number he increased them. Throwing numbers out there before you know how much the delta won't help you imo.

Again, this will play out quickly over prices so it's not like we have to wait until next year. Whatever happens will adjust soon and Q1 will be evidence of whatever is coming out of China.

 

[I Am Legion]

"cutting millions in waste and BS"

Want to make a bet on that?

Why would you bet on that when even the left leaning outlets are reporting on it? It's not even stuff that they discovered. It is known waste that they are actually acting on. They already cut non-essential jobs saving millions. No more grants for frivolous science projects like millions to study transgenderism in animals. Hitting DOD waste hard. Hitting USAID which is starting to look like a total fraud org. And how could you blame Trump for January inflation? WTF man? It's like these toolbag dems blaming Trump for a plane crash that happened in Canada.

 

[Rod1]

Why would you bet on that when even the left leaning outlets are reporting on it? It's not even stuff that they discovered. It is known waste that they are actually acting on. They already cut non-essential jobs saving millions. No more grants for frivolous science projects like millions to study transgenderism in animals. Hitting DOD waste hard. Hitting USAID which is starting to look like a total fraud org. And how could you blame Trump for January inflation? WTF man? It's like these toolbag dems blaming Trump for a plane crash that happened in Canada.

A bet that the deficit isnt going down.

 

[Crazy Source]

A bet that the deficit isnt going down.

You probably know this, as anybody with a functioning brain does, but this isn't about cutting down the debt/deficit. This is about destroying programs that they don't like and gutting institutions that provide oversight and protections to our people and our environment. They do it every time they are in power, but this time they are doing it while consolidating power in the executive branch and more importantly they are doing it illegally. The rubber meets the road when the courts start handing down decisions.

 

[Rod1]

You probably know this, as anybody with a functioning brain does, but this isn't about cutting down the debt/deficit. This is about destroying programs that they don't like and gutting institutions that provide oversight and protections to our people and our environment. They do it every time they are in power, but this time they are doing it while consolidating power in the executive branch and more importantly they are doing it illegally. The rubber meets the road when the courts start handing down decisions.

Dude im from Mexico.

I was born under an authoritarian populist government, i was born in it, molded by it, i didn't see democracy until i was already a man, and by then it was nothing but blinding.

Im eating popcorn while Sherdoggers on the right are in their honeymoon stage while Sherdoggers on the left are on denial. You don't have a nation anymore, these people are just not going to leave power willingly and peacefully.

 

[Rational Poster]

@Cajun

Early numbers starting to come through, Jan to Feb 2025 is looking like the largest month to month increase in inflation since May 2021

 

[Crazy Source]

@Cajun

Early numbers starting to come through, Jan to Feb 2025 is looking like the largest month to month increase in inflation since May 2021

Trump's America.

 

[Stoic1]

Egg prices vs the 30% cost of living rise under Biden.

It's been a month. Calm your tits.

 

[Rational Poster]

Egg prices vs the 30% cost of living rise under Biden.

It's been a month. Calm your tits.

Highest rate of inflation increase since May 2021 already.

 

[Cajun]

@Cajun

Early numbers starting to come through, Jan to Feb 2025 is looking like the largest month to month increase in inflation since May 2021

That's fair. Again, these things will be revealed in short order. My point was never about what will be but what was.

 

[Rational Poster]

That's fair. Again, these things will be revealed in short order. My point was never about what will be but what was.

And my point always was, the threat of tariffs since Trump won have been spooking markets and driving inflation. And now that they are in effect they will spike even more dramatically.

Inflation was on the decline till Trump won.

 

[Stoic1]

And my point always was, the threat of tariffs since Trump won have been spooking markets and driving inflation. And now that they are in effect they will spike even more dramatically.

Inflation was on the decline till Trump won.

Yes. On the decline. Sure. Everyone was totally feeling that. Especially at the grocery store.

 

[Rational Poster]

Yes. On the decline. Sure. Everyone was totally feeling that. Especially at the grocery store.

I mean the data is publicly available you don't have to take my word for it.

 

[SandisLL]

Elect Lukashenko as POTUS.
He does have proven history successfully manage utilities prices and bills in Belarus.
Elect Lukashenko and he will show how to ensure stability for decades.

 

[Cajun]

And my point always was, the threat of tariffs since Trump won have been spooking markets and driving inflation. And now that they are in effect they will spike even more dramatically.

Inflation was on the decline till Trump won.

Ok.

 

[deviake]

Vegan bless your bum souls

 

[Rational Poster]

Ok.

Okay, glad we can finally agree that just because Trump wasn't yet in office his tariff rhetoric was impacting purchasing decisions and in the first 30 days we're trending toward the highest month to month inflation rate since the end of the pandemic.

Which is crazy because we still haven't felt the effects of the proposed inflationary tax cuts, the proposed $5000 rebates, and mass deportation of working age migrants.

 

[Rational Poster]

DOW down 1200 over the last two days reacting to recent inflation reports.

 

[Hdfi]

Why this obsession with eggs anyway? Eggs are high in cholesterol, it's probably not healthy to eat eggs every day.

 

[Stoic1]

I mean the data is publicly available you don't have to take my word for it.

Well, I have been buying groceries for the last 4 years. I'm pretty aware of what's happened.

It's been a month now? Damn. Hasn't unfucked our absentee president's shit yet? Well shucks.