waiting,but don't think FGMM is gonna go to >$1/r shipped like back in the (no so distant) day.
Tariffs and ammo prices?
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You have a gross misunderstanding of how companies run.
Jacking up your prices before your competition does, will kill your sales.
During the pandemic, grocery stores chose to have empty shelves, because the customer is sympathetic to shortages, but hostile to panic buy pricing.
Supply / Demand determines market rate. Consumers set the price based upon availability of product. Unless there is a big panic buy from us, prices should be flat until suppliers have to pass on increased cost of goods
Companies need a high sales volume at market rate, not few sales at a high profit while creating buyers remorse.
A lot of retail is brand management, your companies brand, not the products. If your customers think you do what you described, they go elsewhere and will not come back, even if you lower prices to the market rate.
Companies who stockpiled pre tariff product have two competitive advantages - first, they can keep prices low, and second they can wait to see if the tariffs will lower or go back to previous rates before importing more product.
The top fear now is getting stuck with a bunch of overpriced peak tariff inventory after something is worked out.
Reality is that some companies who couldn't afford a big forward buy or were not able to get it in on time will be the first to raise prices. They will be accused of profiting, will lose sales, be stuck with peak price inventory if rates come back down and be forced to sell at a lower margin or a loss.
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No
They will sell at panic prices as soon as the market will swallow it and pocket all they can.
They will run panic prices till the market decides it's time to spit instead of swallow.
They will sell at panic prices as soon as the market will swallow it and pocket all they can.
They will run panic prices till the market decides it's time to spit instead of swallow.
Oh boy where to start.
I guess with 9mm from my favorite online ammo supplier dropping another 10 bucks per 1000, to 229.99. 20 more bucks and we are talkin...
The resident TDS enthusiasts are going to need to shift to another outrage before too long. White refugees from SA? The jet from Qatar? Anything will do, it knows no bounds.
Companies took advantage of the consumer during covid and shit never balanced back out. Hell companies were raising prices due to tariffs without even being able to quantify, you know wink wink, in anticipation of....
Company A does it, company B thinks, well shit company A is doing it so we will too $$$. Makes it even worse when you get your head out of ass to understand that a few conglomerates now own just about every brand of every type of shit we consume. Then when profit revenue forecasts are lowered they cry, "but muh tariffs!" Hell even McDonald's blamed tariffs for lowered same store sales, nope it's not the subpar food, with subpar service at sit-down restaurant prices, can't be! It's tariffs dammit! Lol...
Example, auto dealers sitting on large inventories of 2024 model cars/trucks that are simply not selling and instead of lowering the price, are sitting on the inventory taking the hit.
Been to a Cabelas, bass pro, or local gun store lately? Good lord, you can literally find almost every single make and model of firearm in stock, just got to be willing to pay the inflated covid-era supply chain price.
I guess with 9mm from my favorite online ammo supplier dropping another 10 bucks per 1000, to 229.99. 20 more bucks and we are talkin...
The resident TDS enthusiasts are going to need to shift to another outrage before too long. White refugees from SA? The jet from Qatar? Anything will do, it knows no bounds.
Companies took advantage of the consumer during covid and shit never balanced back out. Hell companies were raising prices due to tariffs without even being able to quantify, you know wink wink, in anticipation of....
Company A does it, company B thinks, well shit company A is doing it so we will too $$$. Makes it even worse when you get your head out of ass to understand that a few conglomerates now own just about every brand of every type of shit we consume. Then when profit revenue forecasts are lowered they cry, "but muh tariffs!" Hell even McDonald's blamed tariffs for lowered same store sales, nope it's not the subpar food, with subpar service at sit-down restaurant prices, can't be! It's tariffs dammit! Lol...
Example, auto dealers sitting on large inventories of 2024 model cars/trucks that are simply not selling and instead of lowering the price, are sitting on the inventory taking the hit.
Been to a Cabelas, bass pro, or local gun store lately? Good lord, you can literally find almost every single make and model of firearm in stock, just got to be willing to pay the inflated covid-era supply chain price.
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??? common ones are cheap around here. on them and won't use anything without a long safety hx.
Don't count them out.
When anything they predict will be a dumpster fire turns out to be a campfire with marshmallows they very easily flip the script to the next "crisis".
You'll know they're scraping the bottom of the barrel when they circle back to the climate again even though Spain committed power grid suicide in the name of climate.
ETA: stole this from LBC in another thread ... seems appropriate and applicable
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