Shit's getting real
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Because, decades ago, they should've guessed that a demented clown will take over the US..?
Seems a tad unreasonable.
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Lol, yeah, THAT strategy would keep it at 99 cents.
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Guys...
The product is called Arizona Iced TEA. The main ingredient is.... drumroll brewed tea.
How many tea-farms do you know of in the US? There are some small-scale ones, but only one large-scale one at 127 acres.
India has over 800 major estates and ~60,000 small tea gardens across the country
And the costs are not high for the tea itself, which is my point. Its hard to say exactly which supplier, what component of flavoring, etc would be an issue for costs that caused an increase (or if they just wanted to use it as an excuse).
Point is, it doesnt matter why. There are lots of imports for various materials for functionally any company in the US.
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Complicit in... Importing goods that aren't made in the US or have a substantially more limited supply?
What are you saying they are complicit in here, trade with other companies?
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Because, decades ago, they should've guessed that a demented clown will take over the US..?
Seems a tad unreasonable.
No, decades ago, they should have recognized that we should always focus on domestic production and domestic labor.
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And the costs are not high for the tea itself, which is my point. Its hard to say exactly which supplier, what component of flavoring, etc would be an issue for costs that caused an increase (or if they just wanted to use it as an excuse).
Point is, it doesnt matter why. There are lots of imports for various materials for functionally any company in the US.
I thought it might have something to do with protesting as well, a tad. I mean for sure their costs have gone up, as they have over the years. Exactly because they've kept the price the same on purpose and had that as a marketing point, they could now garner quite a bit of attention towards this tariff-idiocy by finally yielding and raising the price. It's kind of a win-win for them, probably, unless the sales plummet.
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Complicit in... Importing goods that aren't made in the US or have a substantially more limited supply?
What are you saying they are complicit in here, trade with other companies?
The practices and policies of their suppliers. If the supply is limited, let it be limited.
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Good luck 1) growing tea and fruit in upstate NY and 2) finding the workforce for jobs that quite a significant portion of Americans are literally physically unable to perform.
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Lol, yeah, THAT strategy would keep it at 99 cents.
I'm actually less concerned about the specific price point. They sold the cans as a volume sale rather than individual profit.
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Why are they using anything imported anyways?
Ah yes, let me just buy local from all of the American tea farms, American bauxite mines, and American aluminum refineries. Oh wait, America doesn’t actually produce meaningful amounts of any of those resources. Pretty much the only thing Arizona would reasonably be able to buy domestically is the sugar.
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Why are they using anything imported anyways?
Ah yes, let me just buy local from all of the American tea farms, American bauxite mines, and American aluminum refineries. Oh wait, America doesn’t actually produce meaningful amounts of any of those resources. Pretty much the only thing Arizona would reasonably be able to buy domestically is the sugar.
Not to mention any part of the factory automation technology. Capacitors on the circuit board are made in Japan if they’re decent, motor windings from China, solenoids , the lot.
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I've seen them at $2 at gas stations
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I've seen them at $2 at gas stations
wrote last edited by [email protected]I think you can report that to the company and they'll stop selling it to that place
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The practices of buying goods for production? That some resources (aluminum) exist in other parts of the world? That others (tea) are better produced in a different climate?
What the hell are you even talking about?
Edit: Just to be clear here - this is a manufactured problem by the POTUS. There is absolutely no reason for the tariffs other than a complete lack of understanding of basic economics. Capitalism (especially effectively unregulated as it is now) is atrocious, but this isn't an example of capitalism being a problem (well aside from it being used as an excuse to raise prices).
This is just stupid policies being enacted. Its a tax on Americans and nothing else. This is just as insanely idiotic as slashing a bunch of programs that idiots dont bother to understand, which either are a net benefit for the US or an extremely cheap global benefit, whether humanitarian or economic.
Short answer: the people in charge are ignorant and destructive.
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Why do nationalists always want to keep foreigners poor? What’s wrong with trade?
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I think you can report that to the company and they'll stop selling it to that place
Nah if the company specifically contracts with Arizona to put their branding where the 99c would go they can do that.
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And when the crop doesn’t grow they’re they should just yell at the trees and kick them until they produce more.
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Here is a personal favorite of mine. Silence brands everywhere.
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We’ll know we’re in trouble when Costco raises the price of the hotdog
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Why are they using anything imported anyways?
Ah yes, let me just buy local from all of the American tea farms, American bauxite mines, and American aluminum refineries. Oh wait, America doesn’t actually produce meaningful amounts of any of those resources. Pretty much the only thing Arizona would reasonably be able to buy domestically is the sugar.
The US imports lots of Aluminium and refines it into Aluminum
