Pro-Trump owner shocked as grocery store that thrived for 43 years goes bankrupt under his tariffs and policies Wong, who supported Trump in the last election, said he was swayed by campaign promises to reduce grocery costs. But now, as his business struggles to stay afloat, he admits the reality looks very different. Grocery inflation is at a two-year high, and prices continue to climb with no end in sight.
Wong told NPR that virtually all of his products have increased in price since early this year. For instance, a box of mabo tofu sauce — a popular Sichuan dish — has gone from $2.75 last year to $3.95 at the beginning of this year. “We just had this shipment come in yesterday — it’s $5. We cannot catch up. Every shipment coming in, we have to put a new price on it,” Wong said.
This has been posted before for those interested
Wait, why doesn’t he just make China pay the tariff, Trump told me thats how this works, he didn’t lie to me, did he?
“With the economy like that, it’s very hard for not just me. It’s for a lot of people.”
Every time, a fucking revelation.
WOW, it’s not just one person doing it wrong and having trouble. Truth is, the vast majority DGAF until it affects them, and they they broacast, it could happen to you too! Before it happened to them, they didn’t care one iota what happened to everyone else. Now it’s happening to them, and let me tell you the rest of the base that’s not getting directly hammered by this (that can still afford groceries) DGAF that he is in a bad situation.
He’s in the cult of selfishness where people only care about themselves, getting what he’s given.
Have the day you voted for, jackass…
Both my sister’s import business and my bro in law supplier business folded in the past 6 months after their inventory ran out. This has a trickle effect because the business they supplied now have 1 less supplier.
My own business is struggling. I had to call my customers to ask them if they would pay sooner because I’m having cash flow issues.
It’s a real struggle out here.
BuT mAmDaMi AnD BiDeN aNd LiB tEaRs
Would the dems be able to win people like this if they removed Trump’s tarriffs instead of increasing them? Would the dems even be willing to do so?
No. We have seen it before with Democrats “moving to the center” never works, just ends up annoying the voters they actually need to get to vote for them.
Moving to the center is maintaining and expanding Trump’s china tarriffs, which is what Biden did. I am asking what if the dems did the opposite of what Trump continues to do, and made things cheaper for Americans?
Ahhh gotcha. I got very confused there. That would be awesome if they did.
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Some FYGM immigrant families are consistently GOP for years, voting primarily for “values” and promises for security plus stability.
It’s just that with this fucking regime they didn’t saw disaster coming.
Everything he’s doing, he said he was going to do. They weren’t tricked. If they didn’t see it coming, it was because they willed themselves to not see it.
Racism does funny things to the brain.
I’m gonna guess that they have WeChat, pro-conservative and anti-democrat articles run rampant in WeChat, I know because my parents constantly spew bullshit and I have to remind them about the Chinese Exclusion Act and that republicans are trying to deport us.
Have you tried reporting the accounts?
how tight is this guy’s girdle? my god, I get weirded out every time I see a picture.
They all try to say they voted for him because of affordability. That means they would of had to live under a rock for the last decade to believe that. They did it for the fascism, racism and control over others. They’re getting what they deserve.
Yep we told them Trump was a con man and a liar 10 years ago and he’s only always proven that true
In all fairness we also knew that in the 1990s
Hell, we knew that family was fucked up from 1927, his daddy Fred Trump was a member of the KKK.
Wong, who supported Trump in the last election, said he was swayed by campaign promises to reduce grocery costs.
Hey Johnny boy, I’m willing to save your company if you can explain in excruciating detail, how Donald Trump doing exactly what he campaigned on was supposed to reduce prices. Spell out the specific moves, and how they actually drop prices.
Explain, since you’re a very smart businessman.
Until such time, all I’ve got for you is two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.
They couldn’t tell you, because Republicans don’t actually pay attention to politics. They don’t care about anything if it doesn’t affect them personally.
They don’t care about anything if it doesn’t affect them personally.
I also won’t take it personally when Johnny loses everything.
And they’re too stupid to realize what effect things have on them personally.
I don’t want small businesses to fail. I also want people who forced Trump on us to get their comeuppance. I don’t know how to parse this, even after a year. Yes, fuck you for doing this to all of us, but also, DAMMIT. IDK… can we like, choose a date and after that be like, yeah you fucked up bro but also I don’t want you to starve anymore? what a shit show.
Look, we tried. We tried understanding, tolerance, olive branches, whatever. The problem is they took the rest of us down with them. At some point you just gotta let them suffer the consequences. You can be sympathetic, that shows you’ve retained your humanity, but we can’t fight for people that punch us in the nose when we reach out to pull them up.
Exactly. It’s like how in lifeguard training, they teach you that you can’t save strugglers who would quickly take you down with them. Same concept.
Can’t save everyone. (Ironically, their own policy for decades when they turned their backs on the poor and disenfranchised repeatedly. No empathy here dog.)
To me it reminds me of the quote on how a society handle their prisoners. They can never have power again and must feel the consequences, but we have to show some baseline level of respect for human life, and show what makes us better than them. It’s not status or money, it’s ideals and empathy
