Chinese DAC's

…the retailer cost of doing business has not gone up.

If an item (wholesale price) was $100 and the the tariff added $10, the item is sold  for $220. The retailer is making an extra $10.

I’m in retail and my vendors just added the percentage of increase to them and are suggesting to pass along just the $$ of increase I’m charged.

My cost of doing business hasn’t gone up. My rent hasn’t gone up, my electricity hasn’t gone up, I didn’t give a raise to my employs.

The thing that happened is the buying power of my $$$ went down.

@muvluv Clueless. 

@perkri 

So, should she have stocked parts for 3 months, 6 months, a year, two years worth of production? 
 

The, up until recently, stable global supply chain, means people don’t keep big inventories of parts. Real time logistics and shipping has taken care of the need to sit on large inventories.

But, she should be able to plan for this, right? 

To answer your question, "she should be able to plan for this, right?".  Yes.  I've worked in manufacturing for 25 years and we live and die on parts availability and when pricing is expected to go up or availability is uncertain, etc. we would be more aggressive about buying critical parts and stocking them to stay ahead.  It's just risk management really and if her business is ISO 9001 certified (not sure if it is) then she should be fully aware of what risks are on the horizon as they would talk about it regularly.

"On time" manufacturing is great until it isn't.  You still need to plan around risk.

@dgarretson I have met Eveanna Manley and she is neither stupid nor an "activist.

I didn't say she was stupid, I'm sure she's very intelligent.  However, her speech tells me she's overly emotional, if not, a low-key political activist.  ""we are all getting F@cked by the FELON."  I don't think she's out there keying hate symbols into Teslas, but I'm positive she wouldn't like it if one of her employees wore a MAGA hat either. 

@squared80 i heard a difference between all those dacs the sux sounds best and fullest while also the Topping Centaurus R2R sounds good using the eq