Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump telling Walmart to eat his tariffs.

Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own policies.

The tariffs are forcing Walmart to raise prices, which is what economists said would happen.

But Trump said wouldn't.

Now, he's saying Walmart should just eat the tariffs and not raise prices, saying, quote,

Walmart should stop trying to blame tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain.

Walmart made billions of dollars last year, far more than expected.

Between Walmart and China, they should, as is said, eat the tariffs, and not charge valued

customers anything. I'll be watching, and so will your customers. Eat my tariffs, man.

Yes, Walmart makes billions. Walmart makes its money by moving hundreds of millions of items per day

at very low net profit margins. But since they're doing such a high volume, they make a fortune.

They have a very tiny net profit margin. But that's net profit margin. What about the gross profit

margin, which is what they make over the cost of goods? It's normally about 25%, just a little bit under. The now effective

tariff rate on products from China is 30%. Do the math. Add 30% to the cost. That would give Walmart

a roughly negative 5% gross profit margin. Not raising prices will probably result in Walmart going

into the red. Walmart is the largest private employer in the U.S. So since Trump didn't

understand the impact of tariffs, despite every economist telling him, his new plan will probably result in layoffs. If they can't

raise prices to meet the product cost, they have to cut other costs. I'm not saying this in

defense of a multi-billion dollar multinational corporation. I'm saying this to point out that if a giant like Walmart can't handle it

without raising prices, there's zero chance for mom and pop places. Tariffs raise prices. That's their

whole job. Even the 30% tariff, which Trump and company is trying to paint as moderate, is threatening America's

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