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PBS News Hour - Segments

Tips for holiday shopping in a year when prices are rising

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The internet has already revolutionized holiday shopping but worries about the labor market and the effect of tariffs are prompting even more Americans to search for holiday deals online. Annemarie Conte, deputy editor for The New York Times’ Wirecutter, joins Stephanie Sy to discuss. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

The Internet has, of course, revolutionized holiday shopping.

0:04.3

And now worries about the labor market and the effect tariffs are having are prompting

0:08.7

even more Americans to search online for holiday deals.

0:12.5

Stephanie Sy tells us how sellers and customers are navigating this Black Friday weekend.

0:18.6

President Trump introduced some tariffs on imports in his first term, but in his second term,

0:24.2

the administration's aggressive tariffs on a wide range of imports have affected manufacturers,

0:30.2

sellers, and customers.

0:32.0

Frequent revisions to what products are and aren't exempt from the tariffs have only created

0:37.0

more uncertainty.

0:38.5

So how does one approach their holiday shopping this year? For help with navigating this and

0:44.6

finding the best deals, I'm joined by Amory Conti, a deputy editor at New York Times Wirecutter

0:50.8

who wrote a piece on this very topic. Amory, thank you so much for joining the

0:55.9

news hour. So just to remind viewers, tariffs are of course basically taxes on imported

1:01.9

goods and that tax is often passed on to consumers. How big are the price increases you've been

1:08.1

tracking at wirecutter in the last year? It's been pretty scattershot,

1:12.7

and I think part of that is because these tariffs seem to be an ever-moving target. And so the

1:19.6

manufacturers have had a really hard time planning. And so they've tried to absorb as much as they

1:25.7

can. But according to our tracking, we've seen as little as a dollar or two, up to $20, $25, depending on the cost of the item.

1:33.4

Help us understand to what degree we've seen tariffs pass down to retail consumers.

1:40.9

It's been pretty significant.

1:42.5

We know now, according to New York Times reporting,

1:44.5

that 50% of all U.S. imports are affected by the tariffs. And a lot of manufacturers were able

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