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Buy Now or Pay More Later? ‘Macroeconomic Uncertainty’ Has Shoppers Anxious

Paresh Dave

created: May 9, 2025, 2 p.m. | updated: May 13, 2025, 2:02 p.m.

President Donald Trump's tariffs are beginning to nudge prices higher on products from high-end strollers to cheap smartphone chargers. That means US shoppers willing to wait out the current chaos could end up getting a better deal. One of the first lessons I learned doing this research was that if I decided to buy in advance, I wouldn’t be alone. As the impact of tariffs started to hit last week, Amazon’s Jassy said that prices on the platform hadn’t surged “appreciably” so far. Jassy didn’t touch on illicit tactics, including tariff evasion, that could keep the prices of imported products artificially low.

4 weeks, 2 days ago: WIRED