NYC stores urging shoppers to buy now before Trump tariff price hikes hit: I just bought a Subaru

Some NYC stores are urging customers to make their purchases quick before President Trump’s new tariffs hike prices — and nervous shoppers are rushing to showrooms across the city to snatch up electronics, appliances, and even cars while prices hold.“Honestly the company’s urged us to tell customers it’s best to buy before the 10% tariffs kick in,” said Xavier Poindexter, 27, a sales associate at a Flushing PC Richards & Son electronics and appliance store.“I’ve been hearing a lot on this topic from customers,” he added.“Our customers are worried about the product prices going up and the corporations that sell the products taking advantage of the situation and raising the prices even further.”The first round of Trump’s newly announced tariffs — a baseline 10% on all imports into the US — come into effect first-thing Saturday.

Heavier reciprocal tariffs — including on electronics powerhouse nations like Japan and China, which will face 24% and 34% tariffs — become effective April 9.Some store managers and sales reps say they’ve received no directives about raising prices yet, while others have been directed not to comment on the topic — but many customers aren’t waiting around to find out what might happen. “I just bought a Subaru Ascent and I paid $50,247, and I told them that if they couldn’t get it to me before the tariffs, forget it, the deal was off,” said MJ, a 74-year-old from Brooklyn who decided to trade in her old cars once Trump’s plans started looming.After the full scope of the president’s tariffs were announced Wednesday MJ decided it might be time to swap out all of her home’s aging appliances, too, so she went down to PC Richards & Son Thursday to scope out the prices.“I’m worried because I live in a house where all the appliances are about 10 years old, and that’s about how long they last nowadays.

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