{"id":20693,"date":"2025-12-09T21:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20693"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:21:06","slug":"only-so-long-before-trumps-tariff-costs-hit-consumers-businesses-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20693","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Only so long\u2019 before Trump\u2019s tariff costs hit consumers, businesses warn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Retail giants have proven more adept than expected at cushioning the blow of President Donald Trump\u2019s steep tariff hikes over the spring and summer, keeping prices for consumer goods from surging this year by as much as many economists anticipated. But business executives and corporate analysts are warning they can\u2019t do that forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the first half of next year, we are concerned that consumers are going to start to see the price increases become a little more broad based, and there may not be all the [holiday sales] promotion to help clear through some of that,\u201d Joseph Feldman, a senior managing director at Telsey Advisory Group, who focuses on the retail sector, said in an interview. \u201cSo that could be a little bit of a sticker shock for some people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That could come as soon as January, according to economists, as holiday discounts come to a close and retailers run low on inventory they secured at pre-tariff prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/08\/trumps-tariff-costs-consumers-00679261\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/08\/trumps-tariff-costs-consumers-00679261<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Retail giants have proven more adept than expected at cushioning the blow of President Donald Trump\u2019s steep tariff hikes over the spring and summer, keeping prices for consumer goods from surging this year by as much as many economists anticipated. But business executives and corporate analysts are warning they can\u2019t do that forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first half of next year, we are concerned that consumers are going to start to see the price increases become a little more broad based, and there may not be all the [holiday sales] promotion to help clear through some of that,\u201d Joseph Feldman, a senior managing director at Telsey Advisory Group, who focuses on the retail sector, said in an interview. \u201cSo that could be a little bit of a sticker shock for some people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That could come as soon as January, according to economists, as holiday discounts come to a close and retailers run low on inventory they secured at pre-tariff prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/08\/trumps-tariff-costs-consumers-00679261<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,290,1316,1407,208,141,226,170],"class_list":["post-20693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-imports","tag-inflation","tag-prices","tag-tariffs","tag-taxes","tag-trade","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20694,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20693\/revisions\/20694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}