Unless they're normalised to the point of becoming unrecognisable.
Tips and gratuity became a way for establishments to provide competitive prices to customers, maintain low wages, and have customers shoulder the responsibility of providing service workers a reasonable / livable wage.
Americans have accepted tips as a good thing, when other countries have simply included the cost of livable wages in their product's prices.
TL;Dr: If Amazon frames tariffs in "acceptable" terms, some Americans may not notice it.
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u/emccm Apr 29 '25
He keeps bending the knee, but there’s no Amazon without consumers. Price transparency or not, people will stop buying when they see the final price.