They’re not “trying” to do this, they’re doing this because the tariffs increase the prices they have to pay to get their goods, so naturally they need to increase the price they sell said goods to consumers so that they can turn a profit and continue to exist as a business. This is not, was not, and never will be that hard to understand.
The sad thing is that even after tariffs are removed, the prices probably won’t be reduced much.
They’ve been doing this since early March. My electrical supply costs just keep climbing.
Duh. What else was going to happen?
Of course they are. Capitalists gonna capitalize.
Just ordered a new video card to replace my 6-year old one simply because I fear prices are going to go up with 20-35% across the board for all PC parts worldwide. Without this threat looming I would definitely have held off for another year or so.