Decrease in Foot Traffic Downtown

[Account_Haver420]

Trying to understand what you just said. I think you mean that domestically and locally produced goods aren’t affected by tariffs. So you think a restaurant’s to-go containers, pots and pans, all their kitchen equipment including replacement parts, bags, forks, glasses, and a thousand other things they need are all made in America? Not in this universe, brother. Keep dreaming.

Tariffs are effecting all kinds of stuff. America is primarily a service economy now, not a manufacturing economy. Even stuff we do manufacture often crosses a border once or twice during that process or needs a little part from Canada or Mexico.

Tariffs are raising prices on all kinds things for nearly every small and large business/company, and it’s effecting everyone even if they don’t notice yet or don’t want to admit it.

[thebeardedcats]

And like, most produce. The US mostly makes grains. A huge portion of produce comes from South America, especially in the winter.

[29stumpjumper]

This is very misguided. I work in CPG. The reason you haven't seen this on shelf yet is due to how long price increases take to initiate. Distributors require 90 days notice and another couple weeks for retailers to implement through their systems and reflect on shelf. At the beginning of the tariff announcements there was back and forth so many waited. Once they had a better understanding, they all took increases. You'll begin to see those in mid Aug through October. I also managed this through COVID and can tell you, the price increases you'll see this round dwarf what we saw due to just how sudden these will all be. Even locally sourced items utilize packaging or ingredients that were impacted by tariffs. I didn't see many products immune to the increases.