Let’s get out of the jump-it is always best to avoid buying panic and be strategic when performing purchases.
But to get a feeling of how people weigh their spending at the present time, we asked journalists and editors via the BI news room to tell us what they choose to spend now – or why they stop – before the last Doald Trump tour of the definitions.
For some, the potential increases of prices on consumer electronics outside China were the turning point to withdraw the trigger on the tool. Others bought some additional daily consumables or said they were thinking about a similar step. Some said that spending habits are still unchanged.
Let’s dive into:
Correspondent Peter Kafka: On Thursday, instead of checking 401 (K), I bought a new MacBook Air from Apple, on its website. I have Apple card, so I managed to finance it at 0 % April.
Tim Cook can discover how Donald Trump exempts Apple from the definitions as he did the first time. Maybe he does not. But in both cases my child will need a new computer in the next few months, so I thought I should get a device now.
I don’t know when I will look at 401 (K).
editor Konz Britti: My husband and I store stable foods. With three children displacing food every week, we keep our store with pasta, canned foods and bread supplies. For vegetables, we cultivate as much as possible (tomatoes, turnip, lettuce, cucumber, peas, carrots) in our garden to make up for some costs of things that we cannot grow, such as berries and bananas that our children love.
Anna Alchek correspondent correspondent: I will follow the waiting and vision approach. I don’t think it is possible to fully predict the market and prepare to raise the potential prices – who knows how individual companies will be affected and how will they choose to respond? Certainly I do not want to excessive preparation for something that might happen or not. In addition, I prefer to pay a few elements that I know I need in six months of excessive spending now on the elements maybe It needs.
Alcynna Lloyd real estate correspondent: I wear hair accessories and ordered each other in the event that the definitions are increased by prices or the elements stopped shipping as they did during Covid-19. The manufacture of the borrowers and the extension depends heavily on suppliers from China and other Asian countries, and during the epidemic, it was a nightmare for products.
Editor Stephen Toyde: I ask for larger bags of cat food than I usually knew because I know I will go to everything, and you will keep it. Otherwise, I am doing my best to resist this use as an excuse to spend something I do not actually need, such as the new NVIDIA graphics card for my computer – although I think I will eventually spend more than a year or two from now when I finally upgrade.
Verekmer retail correspondence Alex Peter: I bought a new script for the liberation (made in China) on Thursday and perhaps I will take another this week. Use it to discover minerals and want to reserve or two if one is broken.
In general, though, I do not store much. This customs tariff covers many products that seem to be completely avoided will be impossible, especially in the long run.
Andy Kerus Editor: I bought a laptop new games in December. I was thinking about upgrading at some point, but I originally planned to do this later in 2025. He pushed the elections and the threat of definitions of this step. Now I feel somewhat sorry for not replacing the iPhone 11 that is still functional, but definitely displays iPhone 11.
Senior reporters Katie Notopoulos: On Tuesday evening, I made a store at the last minute of things that I believed would be clearly sensitive to the definitions-cheap fast clothes made abroad. H&M was hit near the BI office for three polyester shirts and a bundle of socks. The arrangement of the old naval forces that they passed in the shopping cart has placed for two weeks in favor of children’s clothes and summer clothes.
Finally, at the last minute of panic and extremist dopamine, I went to TEMU and requested some cheap games for the upcoming child birthday.
On Wednesday, they talk to co -workers about how to buy new laptops and new TVs, and a flash of bad ideas in my mind. Did you need a new phone? (No, the iPhone 14 works well.) Computer? (No, I am working well.) Certainly, the electronics price will rise – maybe it is time to get a new Kindle? (Stop number!)
Editor Brad DavisI do not buy anything special – and I will not do! Will he go back to me, as I refused to store masks in March 2020? (I truly I wished I had bought those masks by April of that year.)
Ashley Rodriguez EditorI am thinking about storing diapers and napkins. Costco hide both on both of them decrease. It is a difficult decision because my 7 -month -old child was so rapidly growing that I am afraid that the diapers would excel before I have the opportunity to use them all.
Reporter Alice Tikotsky: As a loyal baker, I bought an additional bottle of vanilla on Thursday although there are still some left in my store. A large part of our vanilla comes from Madagascar, which has been 47 % tariff, and I expect the product to be already more expensive (and welcomes the long -awaited summer bread plans).
Otherwise, I do not store much, because the economic future seems impossible to predict and because I do not have space in my small apartment in Brooklyn.
Monica Milton editorWhen the 2020 HP laptop gave up the ghost in February, I immediately handed it over to an electronic waste recycling program. Since then, I have been borrowing MacBook Pro to my husband, telling myself that I have been doing a search on specifications and the best deal for the following personal computer. Although this took months of wrapping, due to the impact of the definitions on the price of consumer electronics, I feel a renewed urgency to get this laptop this week.
I can choose the renewed MacBook device, which I think will stand better than another HP. Restricin electronics market looks more attractive these days!
Great correspondence Emily Stewart: I … do not buy anything. Not because I am not worried about the definitions! But frankly, I don’t need anything at the present time, and I try to fight the consumer, “What should I buy about this?” Trends. It is clear that price increases are bad. But I do not think it is bad to overcome and think if I really need to drown in more things, especially when staring at the robot vacuum that I was in the state of his panic during the epidemic that I used in a few times and is now broken.
Paige Difiore Editor: Earlier this week, we replaced the air frying pan – perhaps it took a few other months, but we prefer to buy a new one before the prices rose.
Now, I store the necessities of houses that will not end, such as toilet paper, dishwasher pods, and laundry detergents in BJ’s. My fiance and I drink in big coffee, so we just asked some espresso bags from our favorite Italian brand – but we cannot buy a lot because the validity period has only a few months. I am very concerned about the cost of coffee because it is not something widely produced by the United States.
We are married this year, so I was comfortable with most of their guests who bought the wedding shower gifts before announcing the customs tariff. I feel bad if the items in the list, such as small devices, cost more than they already do.
Lina Rao Editor: On Wednesday afternoon, shortly after announcing the customs tariff, my husband went to the Apple store and bought the new iPhone 16 Pro and MacBook Pro. These purchases were not sensitive to time, but given the potential rise in the costs of devices, we wanted to anticipate any increase in prices.
We are going to rent a new car (Volvo) and we have a car that is supposed to arrive in the next two weeks. I don’t think our car model is made in the United States. I hope we will not bear any additional costs for the monthly lease contract, but we will not discover until the car arrives and officially sign the papers on the lease.
Deby Strong Editor: I replaced the dishwasher last week and crushed a slight mirror style. The engine was broken on our old Macharres, so this was less than the process of purchasing “customs tariffs” and more than “I refuse to wash another dish” purchasing emergency. “However, I feel comfortable at timing, as the dishwasher was placed over and over again as an element about to become more expensive. I have no other plans to store the goods, mainly because I have no space now. If this changes next time, I am in the grocery store.
