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Dulcinea

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Tue May 20, 2025, 08:16 AM May 20

Kevin O'Leary on Trump, Walmart: Retailers aren't going to 'eat the tariffs'

(The Hill) “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary said in a Monday interview that retailers are not going to “eat the tariffs,” despite pressure from the Trump administration to do so.

“This idea that the president says, ‘Listen, retailers, eat the tariffs.’ That’s not going to happen,” O’Leary said in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill.”

O’Leary said he expects both customers and retailers to shoulder some of the burden of the cost increases, but he noted it’s difficult to predict the cost of goods without knowing the tariff rates — which are up in the air pending further negotiations with U.S. trading partners.

“There’s going to be some distribution of the pain between increased prices, and retailers will take some of the hit, but it really depends what the hit is,” he continued. “We don’t know. Is it 10 percent? 20 percent? 25 percent? What is it? Nobody knows.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kevin-o-leary-trump-walmart-010047659.html

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Kevin O'Leary on Trump, Walmart: Retailers aren't going to 'eat the tariffs' (Original Post) Dulcinea May 20 OP
This whole thing is nutty and not necessary...imo wcmagumba May 20 #1
Duh...... Lovie777 May 20 #2
Sadly, in this age of unbridled greed, I wouldn't count on too many capitalists absorbing any tariff when Firestorm49 May 20 #3
So you think that US businesses should eat the cost of Been A Dick Donald's tariffs? MarineCombatEngineer May 21 #4

Firestorm49

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3. Sadly, in this age of unbridled greed, I wouldn't count on too many capitalists absorbing any tariff when
Tue May 20, 2025, 10:36 AM
May 20

you can just as easily screw over the dumb-ass defenseless consumer.

MarineCombatEngineer

(15,782 posts)
4. So you think that US businesses should eat the cost of Been A Dick Donald's tariffs?
Wed May 21, 2025, 08:34 AM
May 21

Why should they bear the brunt of these insane tariffs by an equally insane Pres.?
You seem to be on the same page as the Been A Dick Donald Admin.

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