No sweat! Dotard says China is paying for it.

following free-market laissez-faire traditions, we never expected you to reduce profits to shareholders.....

I personally despise big box stores due to what they've done to our small communities, but I will give this guy credit for being straightforward that consumers will eat the tariffs. More corporate execs need to do this.

He also knows this will affect their bottom line because folks will tighten their belts.

model. I believe that they operate on a very thin margin and the model falls apart when huge tariffs are present.

From just a quick (amateur) look at the numbers on Marketwatch, their margins are pretty thin although I'm not sure it's fair to compare with WMT and TGT because neither of those are buyer's clubs.

Regardless, the market will punish hell out of them if they allow their financials to fall to benefit consumers.

I do give them a degree of credit for appearing to be more socially conscious than most other retailers and for treating employees better than most.

They already operate on a thin margin, while treating their employees well, so either prices go up or their employees suffer. Which would you rather happen?

They do an amazing job of most everything. It’s almost impossible to get a parking spot in their lot all day every day of the week. Their prices are amazing. The serve as a one-stop shop for so many small stores. I’m stunned by their business model.

Literally, it's against the law. Publicly traded business have a legal obligation to return profits to shareholders.

But there’s nothing stopping a corporation from reducing profits in good faith. Happens all the time.

well with generous benefits.

So many people are misinformed and think that China or Mexico is paying the tariff. When it's brought to their attention that is the customer that is paying, maybe they will pay more attention to what Trump's actions are doing to them.

has announced they will have to start charging more than a dollar because of tariffs.

Depending on the tariff on the items, of course.
There my even - gasp- be a price increase snuck in on non tariffed items, just because some can.

Hopefully the Trump supporters will see price rises and put the cause of it at Trump's feet, along with the tax relief they didn't get.

They are going to wake up some day, hopefully. Trump can't live up to his promises, to say the least.

Their pizza, chicken bakes and hotdogs are yummy

And yes, I am getting tired of it.

Shitler announces a tariff.
Stores and manufacturers raise prices.
We wind up paying more.

So what does the Govt do with this new windfall of tax money?

Is it held in a special fund somewhere, or is it secretly being re-directed into Shitler's pocket?

I'm not understanding your question.

From what I understood, tariffs are taxes on goods. But instead of the other country paying the tariff, WE would wind up paying them - via rate hikes on the products.

It works like this: American company complains that Chinese companies charge less for similar products. That encourages people to buy the lower-cost Chinese product. If a tariff is placed on the Chinese product, then the idea is that people will buy the lower-cost American product. This protects American companies, supposedly.

The trouble is that there aren't equal American products just waiting in the wings to be purchased. In practice, tariffs lead to trade wars, as each side retaliates by raising prices. The consumer loses. And the US becomes more isolated. Entrepreneurship and development of new products declines, as the ready sharing of raw materials is hampered.

That isn't what a tariff is.

Value Added Tax. They are common in Europe and both kill consumption.

I can say already what has happened as the business I work for was slapped with a 300 percent tariff on materials we were purchasing from China. We sourced in the US, but the American producers also raised their prices significantly to match the new Chinese tariffed prices. Money grubbers.

Inflation is going to go through the roof folks.

It needs to hurt.

From what I've heard they've already raised prices on many things. I don't suppose they'd want to get their buddy, Trump, upset though. Announcing price hikes might get Donnie Dim-Wit upset. They're hoping he'll cut their taxes again and provide them with another unwarranted windfall. That's what the wealthy do, take care of their own.