Tariffs on products at Costco.

[Ninga]

Mr Ninga and I shopped at Cosco today. I I was kveching about the price of honey and found the country of origin to be Brazil for a particular selection.
Mr Ninga promptly looked for tariffs and Brazil.
Yep. 14%
So I rooted around and found honey produced in Michigan. Problem solved. Mr Ninga took a pack of post it notes from my purse and wrote “beware tariff product means you pay tariff tax”
He slapped it on the box of Brazil produced honey and then proceeded to do the same thing to other tariff taxed products until he ran out of post its. I went and sat down and had a hot dog while I waited.
Busy bee that Mr Ninga. Love him to bits.

[Polly Hennessey]

1. Good for Mr. Ninga. Wish the stores would do something similar.

Probably, no one would buy.

[Henry203]

2. Have you seen how little furniture

they have on their site? It is unreal.

[Silent Type]

3. Unfortunately, think tariffs will result in more hatred for foreign countries. And foreign countries will feel same

toward us.

That's not desirable.

[Mr.Bee]

15. I remember trump on Letterman

When David pointed out 'These ties are Made In China.'
And trump just shrugged it off.

[Beartracks]

35. "Shrugging shit off" is Trump's main skill, after lying.

[erronis]

4. Guessing that hotdog was "Proudly Made In The USA!".

It's almost embarrassing to see how few products are made here, and when they are they have the "Proudly Made" stamp.

Couple of items I have in front of me with that stamp are some cloth handkerchiefs and a matchbook. Guess we are still the Land of Opportunity!

[popsdenver]

5. Major retailers

are lying to the Public a lot about where their products were ACTUALLY produced......

[niyad]

16. Costco has its own production facility for the hotdogs in Illinois. Was

originally in Tracy, CA, after they switched from Hebrew National.

[Attilatheblond]

47. Some items "Proudly Made In the USA" are also quietly made by prison labor

Maximize profits (prison labor get a pittance) and mislead the consumer into thinking they are helping neighbors by buying USA made.

[aggiesal]

6. This is a suggestion to everyone in DU ...

I don't know if Mr. & Mrs. Ninja are from Michigan, but I suggest, always buy honey from your local region.

Honey has a lot of properties, like it never goes bad.
But the primary property is that, it is made of a mixture of pollen from your region.
Not enough to bring on symptoms of anything you might be allergic to, but it allows your body to build immunities from the pollen that you might be allergic to.

So I always say, buy honey from your local region and build those immunities.
Also, put honey on burns instead of butter.

[calimary]

9. Sounds like a good idea to me!

[erronis]

10. Good advice. "They" also say that if you about to move to a new area, get some honey to precondition your system.

[MIButterfly]

11. I would like to buy honey but am somewhat confused about what kind to buy. They have so many choices!

What is raw honey? Is that good? What would you suggest? I could look it up on Google but sometimes that just confuses me even more. Thanks in advance, aggiesal.

[Clouds Passing]

18. Raw and Local (within 50 miles of your home)

Local contains much of the local flora, helping to ease allergies due to local pollen. Generally 1 tsp to 1 TBSP per day

[MIButterfly]

31. Thank you, Clouds Passing!

[aggiesal]

19. Honey is honey to me. Raw or not raw. ...

But buy it from your local region.

[MIButterfly]

32. Thank you, aggiesal!

[aggiesal]

33. YW, MIButterfly ...

[Otterdaemmerung]

36. "Raw" just means

that it's not pasteurized and is minimally processed, only strained, so it retains more of its natural nutrients and antioxidants. It also tends to be more intense in color, nearly opaque brown sometimes instead of pale translucent golden. I think it tastes about the same, so personally I'd rather get the raw.

I didn't grow up eating honey and so it's still a bit exotic to me, but I find one way to enjoy it is drizzled over good French vanilla ice cream. Yum!

[MIButterfly]

37. Thank you, Otterdaemmerung!

That clears it up for me. Now I just have to find a store that sells it locally. I'm sure that won't be too difficult.
Honey on French vanilla ice cream sounds delicious!

[Lochloosa]

38. Its great for coffee, tea ect. Just start small until you get the hang of it.

A little goes a long way.

[llmart]

40. We always had honey in my house growing up.

We put a teaspoon on our cereal in the mornings. My parents were ahead of their time when it came to nutrition.

[ihaveaquestion]

14. Honey on Burns? I didn't know about that.

Hence I looked it up on the intranets and found that IT"S TRUE! Who knew?

However, it's not recommended to use off the shelf honey without sterilization and not on serious burns. So boil it first, I guess, and seek medical treatment for anything serious.

[aggiesal]

17. More like first degree burns, like burning your skin. ...

I don't know the degree of burns, but if it's bleeding, I'd say that falls under your serious burns suggestion.

[AllyCat]

25. We use it on debridements on preemies and newborns

It’s called Medihoney. We don’t use it straight from the store.

[Maru Kitteh]

43. Jezuz. I'm so glad I'm not a maternity/peds nurse. But pray tell HOW

Do preemies and newborns end up needing debridement? I don’t wanna know, but tell me.

[AllyCat]

45. Their skin is very thin. Tapes for ET tubes, bandages

After surgeries, IV tapes…we are very careful removing, but sometimes they react to the adhesive or the tapes get pulled accidentally.

Skin is basically treated like a burn.

[obamanut2012]

20. Yup! We luckily have a huge local honey store

It's great! A smaller honey store, several local "health food" stores that sell local honey, and two farmer's markets that sell local honey.

It is so great!

Folks can even Google local beekeepers who sell honey.

[Ninga]

28. Didn't know. Thank you!

[llmart]

39. I always buy Michigan honey.

But then again, I live here.

[Attilatheblond]

48. Local farmers' markets are probably the best place to get local honey

Know your vendors! It matters.

[moonscape]

51. I always use cool water on a burn,

never butter, and then a cool compress or ice wrapped in a cloth for a minute or 2. Butter traps heat. Years ago I did the butter thing before learning one shouldn’t. Later, manuka honey can be good but I never heard about healing properties of regular honey.

[Bev54]

7. Now you understand what Canadians have being doing for 6 months on products from US

and US products only.

[Torchlight]

8. Mr. trump can't run and and hide from "I did this!" too much longer

As prices go up and the family dinner table feels the squeeze, even his most ardent sealions won't be able to stem the tide of policy resentment arising from one and only one source: the Pampers Administration. In the end, all fingers will point at him.

[Mr.Bee]

12. Yep, Trump TAX!

He gave the billionaires a tax break
and saddled you with 'tariffs'!
(I mean trumptax)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220715477#post5

[ShazamIam]

13. Tell Mr. Nigna, thank you, from me.

[pansypoo53219]

21. i only do local honey for hay fever prevention. price doubled since last yr.

+ in wi i get cranberry honey. the mildest honey.

[patphil]

22. Being a corporate giant, I'm not surprised that COSTCO imports their honey.

Usually you can find all sorts of local, or at least regional honey in a supermarket, or specialty food store. I agree , local honey is your best bet.
If for no other reason, it supports local producers.

[FakeNoose]

23. Are Mr & Mrs Ninga also coffee drinkers?

Beware of the shock you'll experience in the coffee aisle.

[Ninga]

26. We are. And. I know. Too too sad😞

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Headline: Busy Bee Makes Honey While Honey Honey Bee Snacks!

Film at ....?

Well done Mr. Nina!

Good, good Trouble!

❤️ RESIST!! ✊️

[Ninga]

27. Well, that's exactly why you are Little Miss Smarty Pants! Well done!

[littlemissmartypants]

30. I don't know about that...🙃

I just replied to my own reply. 🤭

Thanks for the reply. 😊❤️

[True Dough]

34. Replying to your own reply?

That's the secret to cracking 30,000 posts!

Congrats on the milestone, LMSP!

[dem4decades]

41. Coffee today at Costco was ridiculously expensive, as was the asparagus.

[Totally Tunsie]

44. Your post sent me to the BJs website to check their whole bean coffee price.

Whew! Compared to a year ago, the Columbian that I like is up 37.96%! Fortunately, I started stocking up on tariff items as soon as trumpie started bloviating about pricing, and still have 15 40-oz. bags stored away at the lower price. Did the same for Perrier water, t.p., olive oil, and imported wines. My storage spaces are bursting, but it's well worth it.

[dem4decades]

58. At this point I'm living on $4.99 rotisserie chicken, $1.50 hot dogs and $13.99 vodka, Yay Costco.

Okay. I was lying about the hot dogs.

[wackadoo wabbit]

42. When the tariffs were first announced months ago . . .

I stocked up at Costco on olive oil (Italy), balsamic vinegar (Italy), maple syrup (Canada), and coffee (Mexico? almost assuredly not U.S. grown). I knew this day would be coming.

[EuterpeThelo]

53. My family did the same

During the height of the pandemic, we kept an extra shelf that we called "the pandemic grocery" out on our side patio and any time we found a good deal on non-perishables like canned foods, toilet paper, baking soda, dish soap, etc., we'd restock it. Not to a hoarding level or anything, but we'd lost my partner to COVID already and my elderly mom was being treated for cancer, so this was to reduce the number of times we had to go to the store or order expensive Instacart deliveries. (And yes, we were those freaks wiping our stuff off with bleach wipes before bringing it in the house if it came directly from the store, so having that set up meant we could just let the stuff sit for a week or more and reduce having to expend that energy.)

After the orange menace reinstalled himself, we reactivated it out in our garage and now have what we call "the tariff grocery." Coffee is heavily represented in the inventory because I work a really mentally-demanding job and I'll be damned if I'm going to be taxed on being able to wake up enough to do it effectively! Like wabbit said, olive oil/balsamic, etc. We have a "bin store" that buys pallets of stuff from Target/Amazon/Walmart and sells them for a steal, so we even bought duplicates of a few of our small appliances that we use a lot like toaster, hand blender, microwave, juicer and threw them in our storage locker.

I never saw myself as a "prepper," but here we are, I guess.

[mikewwbalto]

46. Why Costco?

Why did you do this at Costco?
Why not Sam's/BJs/Walmart?

[sellitman]

49. Probably because he shops at Costco.

Not at those other stores you mentioned.

[Attilatheblond]

50. Because that's where they were shopping when price increase was noticed?

Are you always gonna tell people where to shop? Welcome to DU, I think.

[EuterpeThelo]

54. I could be wrong but

my guess is that the OP meant the target (no pun intended) audience at stores like Sam's/Walmart needs to hear the message that tariffs are hurting them more so than shoppers at Costco, but it was just not communicated very clearly.

[Attilatheblond]

57. One hopes

But one acknowledges a lot of high strangeness lately

[LetMyPeopleVote]

59. I shop at Costco

Costco is NOT hiding the effect of tariffs

[radicalleft]

52. Can you please post a video

of the poor schmuck that had to go around the store and pick up all the errant post-it-notes?

[EuterpeThelo]

55. Just my two cents

but poor schmuck gets paid either way. Post-It notes like this are a form of good trouble, IMHO. Like the ones women were leaving in public restrooms to remind each other that their controlling husbands wouldn't be able to find out they voted for Kamala. It's not like they have to scrape them off or anything.

I started leaving Post-Its near the shelf tags in grocery stores during W's reign of error to inform shoppers of the political leanings/donations of the brands they were buying, and now I carry around those "I DID THAT!" stickers with Traitor Tot's stupid, white-man overbite face on them and leave them on egg cartons and gas pumps and such.

Unfortunately, we now live in a world where many people are so uninformed or misinformed that sound bites or their equivalent (like a short note) are often the best way to reach them.

[usonian]

56. New postit?

[Historic NY]

60. Wait until you start Christmas shopping to find out a ton of stuff is tariffed

heavily. Buying on line, using eBay, Etsy, even Amazon for those cute gifts, grandpa's new Irish sweater, its goes on.

I've have to cancel a number of things because with shipping NY State sales tax of 8.25, and then the Donald Tax. When you add the items up the price is absolutely crazy. Some places won't even ship to the US, they will tell you.

Warnings are now appearing to remind people that carriers will be looking to collect Trump Tariffs, before they release your items. So beware if the price seems too good on overseas items.

You be stuck navigating the extra fees if the seller doesn't tell you if they are included. USPS, FED X, DHL, will all be looking to collect.

[Totally Tunsie]

61. There was a TV news item several days ago showing cargo building up in ports

because there are too many parcels and not enough agents to clear them through Customs. Many items are simply being destroyed because they won't clear and the shippers don't want them returned. Mind you, these are items that have already hit your credit cards for payment. Guess who's out of luck here and imagine the hassle with your credit card bank.

As a general rule, I'd avoid buying Christmas gifts that are being imported. They might never arrive.