If you are a regular shopper at K-Mart, Target. Walmart or any other outlets, you may have noticed how much prices have significantly changed and how much they will rise as a result of tariffs.
The economies of the industrialized world and especially that of the #USA keep shifting. We have an economy where an increasing number of workers are no longer involved with the production, transportation, or distribution of material goods.
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A website called https://web.archive.org/ allows anyone to check these and many other online shopping places and compare, say between January 20, 2017, and today.
Here is what we found in one instance... WALMART
Walmart Inc.
Revenue Increase US$500.34 billion (2018)
Operating income
Decrease US$20.437 billion (2018)
Net income
Decrease US$9.862 billion (2018)
Total assets Increase US$204.52 billion (2018)[3]
Total equity Increase US$77.869 billion (2018)[3]
Owner Walton family (51%)
Number of employees
2.3 million, Worldwide (2017)
1.4 million, U.S. (2017)[4]
Divisions
Walmart U.S.
Walmart International
Sam's Club
Global eCommerce
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170121002749/http://www.walmart.com/
https://www.walmart.com/all-departments
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