Examples of Tariff Price Hikes--Add Yours!

[Qs Laptop]

We have another thread about examples of inflation so I thought I might as well start this thread.

It might be difficult to determine if price hikes are from tariffs or are just price gouging given the current retail market climate. It would be best to try to ascertain the country of origin of any product you list as an example of tariff prices hikes before you post your example.

It's likely that groceries would be the first products to be hit with price increases due to tariffs, since they have a shorter shelf life than manufactured goods.

Let's take coffee as an example. Coffee from Brazil and Columbia has a 10% tariff; coffee from Indonesia has a 32% tariff; coffee from Vietnam has a 46% tariff. You might not see an increase in price from Brazil and Columbia coffee due to tariffs. When tariffs are somewhat low, like 10%, the grower and the importer may absorb any tariffs and not pass it along to the consumer. However, this is unlikely with a 32% or 46% tariff, especially if they stay in effect for months.

It would be nice if your examples included the previous price you paid for something before the tariffs were imposed alongside the new prices.


(Notice I refrained from using the word "slap" when it comes to describing the imposition of tariffs. Why are tariffs always "slapped on"?)

 

[Koolau]

Why are tariffs always "slapped on"?)

Because it sounds worse. Bad news sells.

 

[FLSUnFIRE]

I noticed the avocados at SAM's Club yesterday were almost $10... my buy point is $5 and change and they usually ricochet between $5-8 for a bag of 5 large. The pricing has always been volatile week to week so it's salad roulette for me but I may not have avocados in my salad for a while. Tomatoes were normal priced but many of them come from south of the border.

I didn't price the coffee but recently my stomach hasn't enjoyed coffee so drinking more breakfast tea (which could be taxed even more but I just stocked up on it so I'm good for a bit).

 

[Koolau]

I noticed the avocados at SAM's Club yesterday were almost $10... my buy point is $5 and change and they usually ricochet between $5-8 for a bag of 5 large. The pricing has always been volatile week to week so it's salad roulette for me but I may not have avocados in my salad for a while. Tomatoes were normal priced but many of them come from south of the border.

Heh, heh, we have friends on the Island with avocados growing in their yard. These things are HUGE and very tasty (and FREE).

 

[FLSUnFIRE]

Heh, heh, we have friends on the Island with avocados growing in their yard. These things are HUGE and very tasty (and FREE).

They grow here too! I'm in a townhouse, the house I rented in transition had an avocado tree.... they were so good but unfortunately apparently the trees have a biennial production and I was renting in a low yield year. I can grow pineapples on my urban stoop though!

ETA: Not a reason to go back to w*rk but I could get all the mangos, star, fruit, citrus, etc from people bringing in "Florida zucchini" to the office.

 

[ncbill]

~$20 to ~$30 for one of my Amazon "Subscribe & Save" items arriving with next week's order.

Probably due to one of the 25% tariffs that are still in effect.

Nothing I can't live without.

I'll stick with it this time, but probably not the next.

Kudos to Amazon for notifying me of the price increase well in advance.

 

[Irishgirlyc58]

I bought a bag of 5 avocados for just under $10 at Sams. Then I was at Costco about a week later and they had the same for $12. The same bag of avocados used to be between $5-$6 depending on the time of year.

My coffee has gone up from $11/lb to $13.50/lb but that's over the last 3 years so I don't think the tariff impact has been incorporated yet. I order from a local coffee place near Yosemite. I figured out even with the shipping cost factored in it was no more expensive than Starbucks and way better coffee.

Heh, heh, we have friends on the Island with avocados growing in their yard. These things are HUGE and very tasty (and FREE).

And yet another reason to move to Hawaii!

 

[Sojourner]

Can't say I've noticed anything yet, but I'm going to be carefully looking out for new examples of shrinkflation at the grocery store in the coming weeks. Wouldn't be at all surprised to see standard "pound" bags of coffee going from 12 ounces down to 10.5 or even lower.

 

[audreyh1]

Our usual Lindt chocolate bars had gone from $3.33 to $4.44 the other day. I’m suspect that’s related more to shortages of cacao beans.

 

[audreyh1]

I bought a bag of 5 avocados for just under $10 at Sams. Then I was at Costco about a week later and they had the same for $12. The same bag of avocados used to be between $5-$6 depending on the time of year.

We have really noticed this recently, and it’s pre-tariffs. There was a halt to avocado imports last summer and that seems to have messed up the distribution chain. Plus weather. Supply shortage is like 25-30%.

 

[MichaelB]

I did some food shopping yesterday and the avocados were $2.49 for one large. It’s the first time I’ve seen it over $2

 

[HFWR]

The pre-made guac I bought for my fajitas meal(s) was priced about as usual, though I suppose I just grabbed it on the way by, without paying that much attention.

Yes, store made. I had enough meal prep going on already.

 

[dixonge]

I noticed the avocados at SAM's Club yesterday were almost $10... my buy point is $5 and change and they usually ricochet between $5-8 for a bag of 5 large. The pricing has always been volatile week to week so it's salad roulette for me but I may not have avocados in my salad for a while. Tomatoes were normal priced but many of them come from south of the border.

I didn't price the coffee but recently my stomach hasn't enjoyed coffee so drinking more breakfast tea (which could be taxed even more but I just stocked up on it so I'm good for a bit).

$4.35 for 5 Hass avocadoes at WalMart near my apartment (but then I live in Mexico)

 

[COcheesehead]

I haven’t seen anything yet.

 

[braumeister]

Our usual Lindt chocolate bars had gone from $3.33 to $4.44 the other day. I’m suspect that’s related more to shortages of cacao beans.

I think so. My staple is either Lindt or Ghirardelli 85-86% bars, and I always buy them at a military commissary so I get the absolute best price. Last week I was astounded to see them around $3.50. It seems like not that long ago they were just a little over $2.00. Gotta have my chocolate though.

 

[GenXguy]

Bananas jumped from 50 cents to 54 cents per pound at Walmart. And another local grocery store used to have them for 39 cents per pound if you were a member of their savings club, and now they are 54 cents there, also. These are price increases within a week probably because I buy bananas regularly.


I already posted about the chocolate shrinkflation and price increases in the inflation thread, so I won't add it here, but I saw someone else mentioned chocolate.

 

[Surewhitey]

I called my plywood supplier just for giggles. 3/4 import birch is still $34.50/sht...it's usually from either Vietnam or Indonesia.

 

[Sue J]

I've been into avocados lately. I was at Aldi a few days ago and grabbed a bag of 6 small avocados for $2.95, which I thought was pretty good!
The trick is to get them to not all ripen on the same day since it takes me more than a week to eat that many.

These were from Mexico. I expect that these will increase in price very soon.

Another favorite lately has been mangos, also from Mexico. $1.05 each at Aldi. I have such a hard time timing the ripening on these too!

Yeah, our fruits and vegetables could get very expensive soon. I'm still buying.

 

[audreyh1]

I've been into avocados lately. I was at Aldi a few days ago and grabbed a bag of 6 small avocados for $2.95, which I thought was pretty good!
The trick is to get them to not all ripen on the same day since it takes me more than a week to eat that many.

These were from Mexico. I expect that these will increase in price very soon.

Another favorite lately has been mangos, also from Mexico. $1.05 each at Aldi. I have such a hard time timing the ripening on these too!

Yeah, our fruits and vegetables could get very expensive soon. I'm still buying.

We buy bags of the green ones at Costco. As soon as any turn dark we refrigerate them. They seem to last quite a while this way.

 

[zinger1457]

I called my plywood supplier just for giggles. 3/4 import birch is still $34.50/sht...it's usually from either Vietnam or Indonesia.

Wish I had a supplier like that around here, a sheet of 3/4" birch plywood is going for $93/sheet at my local HD, not a lot of other options around here, Lowes doesn't even carry it.

 

[HFWR]

Hadn’t bought sheet plywood in a while now, but I noticed quality slipping as early as ten years or more. And all of a sudden 3/4” was “nominal” thickness, so dadoes had to be adjusted to comply. This was not boutique, just the local big box.

 

[SnowballCamper]

I've got my own little experiment going with my new Mac mini. Knowing the increased tariff is within the profit margin, how much gets passed on in the price increase?

 

[Surewhitey]

Hadn’t bought sheet plywood in a while now, but I noticed quality slipping as early as ten years or more. And all of a sudden 3/4” was “nominal” thickness, so dadoes had to be adjusted to comply. This was not boutique, just the local big box.

Driven by metric measures... 18mm, just shy of 3/4"

 

[ponyboy]

Avocados should be used as ammo for a potato gun. My wife likes avocados. I think they're disgusting. Guac is also horrible.

 

[Fermion]

Gold hit a record today of $3236 an ounce. Indicator high inflation incoming?