{"id":951133,"date":"2025-07-30T11:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951133"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:07:03","slug":"report-claims-amazon-raised-prices-since-donald-trump-took-office-company-says-setting-the-record-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/30\/report-claims-amazon-raised-prices-since-donald-trump-took-office-company-says-setting-the-record-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Report claims Amazon raised prices since Donald Trump took office; company says: Setting the record straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has strongly disputed a Wall Street Journal analysis claiming the e-commerce giant raised prices on everyday essentials by 5% following President Trump&#8217;s inauguration on January 20, calling the methodology &#8220;fundamentally flawed&#8221; and accusing the publication of cherry-picking data.<\/p>\n<p>The WSJ study examined 2,500 common items including cough drops, antibacterial wipes, and chicken broth, finding average price increases from Trump&#8217;s inauguration through July 1. The report suggested these hikes were linked to anticipated tariff impacts on international goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has strongly disputed a Wall Street Journal analysis claiming the e-commerce giant raised prices on everyday essentials by 5% following President Trump&#8217;s inauguration on January 20, calling the methodology &#8220;fundamentally flawed&#8221; and accusing the publication of cherry-picking data. The WSJ study examined 2,500 common items including cough drops, antibacterial wipes, and chicken broth, finding average price increases from Trump&#8217;s inauguration through July 1. The report suggested these hikes were linked to anticipated tariff impacts on international goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}