1. Aumento inicial de precios durante la pandemia.
Durante la pandemia de COVID-19, los precios experimentaron un aumento significativo, a menudo justificado por problemas en la cadena de suministro. Sin embargo, muchas empresas aprovecharon la situación para incrementar sus márgenes de beneficio más allá de lo necesario, sentando un precedente para futuras subidas.
- During the covid pandemic, prices went up, and after the pandemic, they didnt go down very much.
- Large grocery store chains exploited product shortages during the pandemic by raising prices significantly more than needed to cover their added costs and they continue to reap excessive profits.
- Could be true, could be a good excuse to raise prices. This is a problem left over from covid where we had prices raised and shrinkflation that wasnt legit tied to the pandemic.
- Companies are exploiting consumers by raising prices. They increased prices due to the pandemic and made a killing.
- I mean the pandemic raised things and raised prices because of corporate greed, and public greed.
2. Permanencia de precios elevados post-pandemia.
Una vez superada la fase aguda de la pandemia y normalizadas las cadenas de suministro, los precios no regresaron a los niveles pre-pandémicos. Esta persistencia de precios altos se atribuye en gran medida a la codicia corporativa, que mantuvo los márgenes de beneficio inflados.
- Prices did not return to pre-pandemic numbers. The pandemic was just an excuse to increase profit margins once it subsided.
- Prices went up during the pandemic and the greedy bastards never lowered them to pre-pandemic prices.
- Corporations never lowered their food prices after the pandemic running away with billions in profits from our pocketbooks.
- Once the prices are up, they wont come down. Corporate greed will ensure that. Prices didnt come down when the supply chain returned after the worse of the pandemic.
- Im not an economist, but this doesnt seem like normal inflation to me. It feels more like price-gouging on essentials. During the height of covid, corporations discovered they could charge whatever they wanted for household goods and blame the pandemic. And then those prices never went back down.
3. Los aranceles como nueva justificación para el aumento de precios.
La imposición de aranceles ha proporcionado a las empresas una nueva excusa para aumentar los precios, replicando el patrón observado durante la pandemia. Se espera que esta situación resulte en una mayor inflación y una carga económica para los consumidores.
- How long until companies start saying blame tariffs like they started saying blame covid when they started raising prices for greed reasons and nothing else.
- They are 100 percent taking advantage of this to raise prices, even on the things that shouldnt be affected by the tariffs. Were going to get gouged again, just like the pandemic.
- This is also what i expect with the tariffs. Doubling prices of everything and blaming tariffs just like they continue to charge 13 for a 12 pack of sprite because the pandemic.
- Even if tariffs are lifted, greedy businesses wont reduce prices. We just experienced that after the pandemic! greed.
- Corporations will not take much of hit during trump tariffs 2.0 the world watched during the pandemic inflation caused by felon trumps dreadful response.
4. Impacto en los consumidores y la economía.
La combinación de precios elevados post-pandemia y los nuevos aumentos por aranceles está generando una presión económica significativa sobre los consumidores. Fenómenos como la "shrinkflation" y la "greedflation" se han vuelto comunes, afectando el poder adquisitivo y la calidad de vida.
- The u.s. Does exactly the same thing it began during the pandemic people were so desperate, theyd willingly pay higher prices. Then the manufacturers began keeping the prices high while decreasing the volume in their products shrinkflation!
- My favorite thing about shit going down is that it always proves that they can just lower prices and do shit to make life a little easier but refuse to do so under normal circumstances.
- The prices will never return to pre-tariff levels. Just like housing and other things were never going to return to pre-pandemic levels. Inflation or inventory were the excuses then, now its tariffs when for most, its corporate greed.
- Many of the public think prices are high because of biden and now trump, when in fact its the flu and its corporate greed that raised prices during the pandemic and never lowered them.
- Its getting worse, not better. Companies are exploiting consumers by raising prices. They increased prices due to the pandemic and made a killing. They also benefited from the government during the pandemic so they wouldnt need to raise prices, they still did, and never brought them down.