Fujifilm Announces Second US Price Increase in August (dpreview.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/18/2330231/fujifilm-announces-second-us-price-increase-in-august
- Source link: https://www.dpreview.com/news/4708319593/fujifilm-august-price-increases-us-market
[1] https://www.dpreview.com/news/4708319593/fujifilm-august-price-increases-us-market
[2] https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/1245240/fujifilm-is-raising-camera-prices-by-up-to-800
Come out and say it (Score:2)
Prices have increased because of Trump.
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> Prices have increased because of Trump.
Trump Tax is real
I question the relevance in this case (Score:2)
They updated the price of one camera model, the X100, which seems a high quality but terribly overpriced product for the nostalgic. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Nobody who wants to take pictures today should rationally spend that much on what seems to be the modernized version of a Kodak Instamatic, unless they want to make an artistic statement in using such a camera. I'm fine with Fujifilm producing great cameras for a niche ("hispter") market, but their pricing isn't very relevant to anyone.
Now if Fu
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujifilm_X100#Fujifilm_X100VI
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I disagree with pretty much all of what you stated.
The coffee I buy has shot up about 25% (Score:2, Troll)
I've also been looking for a freezer and those have shot up about the same.
Wholesale vegetable prices have shot up 38%. Some of that's tariffs and a lot of it's ice going around yanking people off the street. To get Americans to do that kind of work you would need to compensate them like you do the guys who work on oil rigs because you're basically living out in the middle of nowhere and it's temporary work. And there's no way in how we are going to pay people that much to pick vegetables.
We would u
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So forced labor to compensate for self-imposed tariffs and immigration crackdown, all this because you don't want to tax your billionaires.
Didn't you use to be smart?
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A lot of what you say is pretty logical and true. Americans voted this in, so they either need to celebrate this new reality, or vote it out. My guess is that they will continue to take it up the ass. And talk about how good it feels.
Will hit US companes just as hard (Score:2)
No product more complicated than toilet paper is completely domestically produced anymore. Nothing. The US companies stockpiled a years worth of inputs when Trump started making noises about tarriffs, but they'll run out of that stuff eventually, will have to replenish from overseas sources (no viable US alternatives for a lot of things) and they will pass the extra cost along to the consumer. Don't let any right-wing commenter convince you otherwise. 6-12 months after all the foreign companies raise their
Ways to make USA more competitive... (Score:2)
Tariffs aren’t an industrial strategy, they’re a price hike with extra steps. They dull competitive pressure onshore while offshore wages and standards would have narrowed the cost gap anyway as countries develop and workers and demand higher pay and better (more comparable) working conditions. Build a permanent moat and you delay real cost parity, cut efficiency, and shrink overall activity. If resilience is the goal after COVID, use a scalpel, not a sledgehammer: target truly strategic nodes
Who could have seen that coming ? (Score:2)
Other than every economist.
We are now discovering which companies have the least US inventory.
Others will have to raise prices too, once they sell all US stock.