Put aside the politics<p>It’s a terrible metric to show because it’s not like they are buying these things in single pieces - they get the products in bulk from Chinese suppliers presumably at a discount. I am not sure of the point of including this - it is sort of like when you go to a restaurant and they add some stupid service charge on your bill as a protest against something like paying their workers more because wage went up
More discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43831027">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43831027</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43832588">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43832588</a>
Amazon's whole shtick is that people will pay more for free shipping. It would not make sense for them to suddenly flip on one of their core principles.
Listing the impact of tariffs on product prices is some of the strongest customer obsession the retail side of Amazon has shown in years. Shame to see Trump sabotage it.
The Trump team doesn’t seem to understand the severity of what they’ve done to the economy. Shipping volume is cratering and warehouses are being depleted. People are going to notice the upcoming price hikes and shortages no matter how the numbers are shuffled around on the purchase order.
What exactly happened here, I mean, Amazon did something they knew would upset Trump, Trump got upset and Amazon backpedaled? Is the goal to let Trump feel like he got a win?
So a news site had some report that indicated that Amazon was considering displaying the cost of the tariffs next to the prices on their website. Trump responds to it as though it were fact. The headlines imply it's fact and not just a rumor. Now after Amazon representatives correct the record, saying that it was never approved, and journalists like this opinion writer act as though Bezos is changing his mind because Trump asked him to, and not because it likely wasn't going to happen in the first place. It's like they don't care about what actually happened, rather just about the story being compelling.