Pro-Trump owner shocked as grocery store that thrived for 43 years goes bankrupt under his tariffs and policies - WTF Detective
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A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may soon close its doors after more than four decades in business — and the owners say tariffs are to blame. Wong Kai Imports, founded in 1983 by John Wong and his two brothers after their family immigrated to the United States from Hong Kong, has been a cornerstone for the local community…

Pro-Trump owner shocked as grocery store that thrived for 43 years goes bankrupt under his tariffs and policies Wong, who supported Trump in the last election, said he was swayed by campaign promises to reduce grocery costs. But now, as his business struggles to stay afloat, he admits the reality looks very different. Grocery inflation is at a two-year high, and prices continue to climb with no end in sight.

Wong told NPR that virtually all of his products have increased in price since early this year. For instance, a box of mabo tofu sauce — a popular Sichuan dish — has gone from $2.75 last year to $3.95 at the beginning of this year. “We just had this shipment come in yesterday — it’s $5. We cannot catch up. Every shipment coming in, we have to put a new price on it,” Wong said.

  • GeriatricGambino@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I get why you don’t find it funny, with how dramatic things quickly got since the start of this second term shitshow, I never felt like laughing once. But I don’t feel any amount of sadness or compassion for these morons. You make a comparison with people getting scammed out of their life savings but it’s not the same thing at all.

    First it doesn’t just affect them, people in the entire world get to suffer for their selfish stupid decision: Canadians and Greenlanders get to be threatened with annexation, fishermen off the Venezuelan coast get to be double tap murdered by drones, Ukrainians get to live under the constant threat of withdrawal of support from the US unless they sell their country for parts, us Europeans get to be spat on by a so-called “ally”, Palestinian get to contend with an even more unhinged USA support of Israel and so on and so forth with the global economy, the environment, global disease prevention…So fuck them, the suffering they get is only a fraction of the suffering they unleashed in their country and the rest of the world.

    And second, unlike an actual scam they didn’t get confused within a few minutes time span without time to properly think. They had AT LEAST MONTHS, to think about this and research information for themselves, and when they didn’t do it, other people TRIED DESPERATELY to warn them and they didn’t listen, because in the end they were convinced to be smarter and didn’t want to look for answers or listen to the pleas of others.

    I remember a segment on national TV of my country where right before the election two women, one Democrat, one Trump voter were being interviewed. At the end they were asked what they would do if Trump won, and the Democrat woman, with some amount of anguish, said she would have to fight against feelings of despair because the consequences would be catastrophic. And the Trump voter with her fucking clipboard and condescending tone said that as a business owner she would go to work no matter what be an adult and not be “hysterical” and that voting for Trump was the rational thing to do for the economy and she hoped other people got to understand that as well instead of being “emotional”. I don’t really give a fuck to what happened to that woman or her business, but her and tens of millions like her forced all of us to live in a world made by their selfish stupidity and I say they don’t deserve any forgiveness for that.