r/news • u/johnk317 • 1d ago

China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/china-to-impose-34percent-retaliatory-tariff-on-all-goods-imported-from-the-us.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard
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u/Rance_Mulliniks 1d ago

American dollar stores are going to have to become $1.34 stores.

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u/beeblebroxx 1d ago

They already are

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u/klenkyandthebrain 1d ago

Yeah, or dollar tree is a $1.25 store with $3 and $5 things sprinkled throughout. It was a depressing transition to witness.

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u/Queasy_Ad_8621 1d ago edited 1d ago

The Dollar Tree was founded in 1986. If you adjusted for inflation, one dollar back then would be $2.91 today.

So the prices only going up to $1.25 after 29 years really isn't that bad, and it doesn't seem like it was done out of greed. A place like Subway going from the "five dollar foot long" to the "twenty dollar, plus tip footlong" out of nowhere really does... because it should only be $7.41 if you're adjusting for inflation.

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u/GirlNumber20 1d ago

They didn't raise the price during that time, they just reduced the quality to be commensurate with the price.

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u/YogurtclosetNo987 8h ago

The goods you would be buying from them in 1986 are different than what you'd be buying now in size and in quality. They change their cost to not change our cost. 

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u/ApologizingCanadian 1d ago

Yea same in Canada, Dollarama went from exclusively having items for 1$ or less to now having 5$+ items. They're still a lot cheaper than most other places but still...

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u/Dolozoned 1d ago

they already were

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u/SmokiestDrip 1d ago

If I was Dollar Tree, I would change my name to Tree fifty.

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u/ElderSmackJack 1d ago

Damn Loch Ness Monster

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

The mascot provides itself. Now just take the idiot who thought Trump would bring manufacturing jobs (the 1950s ones, not the new Assembly Line Robot Maintenance Staff skeleton crew imported from India) and let them spin signs in front of the stores while wearing the Nessie suit so everyone can hear their muffled sobs.

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u/AliceLunar 1d ago

Well it was about that time that I noticed that the girl scout was about 8 stories tall..

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u/alvinyap510 1d ago

Dollar Tree to Dollar Three is sufficient

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u/CheeseburgerJesus71 1d ago

It literally HAS to be "Tree Fiddy" so we can set up topless clubs nearby named "Free Tiddy"

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u/Anguis1908 17h ago

Tree Thrifty

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u/Excelius 1d ago

They had to give up on the dollar price point a while ago.

The dollar store concept got popular in the nineties and that was never going to hold long-term, even with a modest rate of inflation.

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u/jetsetninjacat 1d ago

It's like people forgot there were things called nickle and then dimes store as natural inflation made them be phased out.

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u/Comfortable_Gas8166 1d ago

Its been $1.25 tree for a couple years now

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u/moosegoose90 1d ago

They are raising it to 1.75

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u/congteddymix 1d ago

There already a $1.25 store in my area, probably going to be $1.75 store if we’re lucky. If we’re unlucky it will be a $3.50 store. Well at least we can all laugh at a bunch of “three fiddy” jokes?

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u/nysflyboy 1d ago

Dollars tree...

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u/BoysenberryKey6821 1d ago

They haven’t been actual dollar stores in a long time

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u/vadan 1d ago

Dollar Tree already announced this month they are closing down all Dollar Stores. There will still be Dollar Tree, but they haven’t had things for a dollar in those for a while. 

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u/kakapoopoopeepeeshir 1d ago

Bro they already are. Dollar General here in SC has the same prices as Target

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u/Enigma_Green 1d ago

Irony of a store in the uk called Poundland, yet everything isn't a pound anymore they sell.

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u/Ract0r4561 1d ago

Poundland is an interesting name..

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u/63Reddit 1d ago

Kinda wanting to hear an updated version of Macklemore’s Thrift Shop.

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u/japinard 1d ago

You're such an optimist. Try $5.00 stores.

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u/gkpetrescue 1d ago

They’re already $1.25. Gonna have to be like $1.75

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u/Crimson__Fox 9h ago

Dollar General was founded in 1955 when $1 was equivalent to $11.91.

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u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman 1d ago

Thats uh... that's why it's called Five Below...