How likely are we to be profitable with all these tariffs especially one on China? We can't sell pencils made in US for 2 dollars!
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The lies being told about tariffs by the Trump administration are pathetic and anyone who believes them is foolish.
Staples is plenty profitable. The problem is the profits are lining the pockets of a few select owners and the SLT on the backs of the the rest of the org and all of the families they destroyed who built the company. No one cares about a $2 pencil when we may buy one pack a year.
You think you would be use to that with Staples strategy changing month after month year after year and guess what it’s the same strategy we had twenty years ago. Now back to your TDS- Be patient, for at least 6 months you certainly didn’t speak up after 4 years. It’s going to be ok.
Tariff policy has changed on a week to week basis, it's hard to imagine that stopping now. None of what's happening has a clear and coherent strategy.
Let’s compare in four years with what last administration did and what this one does and then see who was more on point. And get some help for your TDS.we have EAP for that.
12 year olds have a more sophisticated understanding of trade, to him trade is 100% one sided transaction, regardless of what trade.
That same portion of the country now say that skyrocketing prices, empty store shelves, and a recession are either meaningless or "actually a good thing".
A large portion of the country doesn't even have the basic education to distinguish that a tariff is a tax.
Wow talk about brainwashed
Most the replies are laughable, especially the one saying the economy was good under Biden. Must be a bunch of MA posters. It's shocking what you folks in MA have allowed to happen to your state. Too brainwashed and ignorant to stop the madness, too brainwashed and ignorant to understand WHY what Trump is doing is this country's only chance of survival. A country that does not make things, a country with a corrupt government with unchecked out of control spending, a country who's elected officials are incapable of reducing spending and the national debt, a country with a government that operates as one massive money laundering scheme will go bankrupt. Fact.
People are brainwashed and too ignorant to acknowledge Trump stopped the 10's of millions of illegals pouring into our country, brought gas down to under $2 gal, oil under $60 a barrel, egg cost down by 82%, and has 20 trade and tariff deals on paper in the final stages of negotiations. In 3 - 4 weeks when the deals are announced, the stock market skyrockets, and manufacturing is popping up all over the country, the petulant brainwashed will say what Trump was able to accomplish was no big deal. They are blinded by their TDS.
We're stuck in a time loop.
Tariffs on.
Tariffs off.
Repeat.
He actually has no idea how negotiations or deal making works, he usually just bullies companies/people into submission, but that obviously won't work with China. That's just another reason you can't run a country like a business.
In a few months, you're going to see massive layoffs in small business. Empty shelves and more. Boats aren't leaving China for the U.S. with goods.
You sound like a mo--n. The last pretend pres ran the economy in the ground, opened our borders let criminals run rampant, wars all over the world, a country divided. And you seriously don’t see a difference. Tariff strategy will bring equity that aren’t you all wanting.
Staples has way bigger problems than Tariffs and you really should keep politics off the site. The country spoke in Nov. majority is trusting the process.
Unchecked massive ego is usually ugly.
Competing with Chinese manufacturing is laughable. This administration has no plan, just delay,deflect, and delude. America does not have the infrastructure, the labor force, or the leadership.
i dont think this will be positive for any of the companies that sell office products
staples, essendant, mason are all going to suffer...badly. every category is sourced (ultimately) from various asian manufacturing suppliers. I would expect things to get much worse for the average warehouse worker as far as getting your hours cut or lay-offs or even facility closures as our respective companies try to save themselves.
good luck to everyone, i sincerely hope you find a way to mitigate the fall out.
The "run the government like a business" crowd is awfully quiet.
Imagine being handed a good economy with good trade agreements and everything is going smoothly so you find a way to completely sc--w the whole thing up. Time is on Chinas side, they are not caving in. All hail the "very stable genius".
I guess "owning the libs" wasn't a solid economic strategy after all...
All of the Own Brand chairs etc are made in China and Vietnam. How long before we stop selling furniture or providing parts for them? It's going to be ugly.
Tell Trump, he seems to know all about business, or maybe see if we can buy from Canada.