As temperatures soared on a sweltering July day in New York City, shoppers at Queens’s largest mall said they were feeling the heat – of rising prices.

“T-shirts, basic t-shirts, underwear, the basic necessities – the prices are going up,” said Clarence Johnson, 48, who was visiting the Macy’s at the Queen Center mall to pick up shirts he ordered online.

As Donald Trump presses on with his trade wars, retailers have been passing price increases onto customers. Department stores – which rely on a variety of imported goods and materials, from shoes to t-shirts – have particularly been scrambling to deal with the flux in prices.

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    What? You mean Taco’s stuff ends up as a tax that I get to pay?

    Also, I’m waiting until Taco goes after every outlet reporting on this in the same way his SpokesBarbie said Amazon listing the cost of tariffs would be a “hostile and political act”. At some point, any honest reporting of economics may become a “hostile and political act”.

    The Orwellians in the WH can then start to correct the history of Biden’s economic data to match their bullshit rhetoric about how an actually very healthy economy was actually the “worst ever”. Even if we all lived through it and saw with our own eyes the true version of events, we’ll be gaslit by repetition about how truly awful the Biden years were, lol. (Doesn’t help that a lot of people keep helping the qons in this, by the way).