内容摘要：For products like coffee, Helper predicts people will likely absorb costs, while changing their shopping choices when it comes to other products.

For products like coffee, Helper predicts people will likely absorb costs, while changing their shopping choices when it comes to other products.

A selection of cheese, some from Spain and Italy, is displayed at Gibbs Cheese at Findlay Market on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)It may also be time to look for substitutes. From electronics to clothing, Flores-Macías says that there could be more affordable secondhand or refurbished options to turn to. And Chatterjee noted consumers may want to start comparing prices of name-brands versus “private,” or generic, labels in major retailers. Others may turn to at-home solutions, he said, such as growing their own vegetables.

Overall, experts say you’ll need to evaluate your budget and consumption habits for the road ahead.“This is not a hurricane that’s going to be around for seven days and everything goes back to normal afterward. And you stock up on(temporarily),” said Chatterjee. “For all you know, this thing could be around until a different administration comes in and changes trade policy.”

Consumers should be on the lookout for even greater use of so-calledon the grocery aisle, according to Breyault. Shrinkflation is a tactic consumer goods manufacturers use to hide cost increases by changing the design of packaging.

“Consumers can prepare for the inflation that the tariffs are likely to exacerbate by getting into the habit of checking the unit price of items on the grocery shelf,” said Breyault. “While not all states require it, where it is required, consumers can more easily compare the per unit price of one item — cereal, for example — to another item.”

___ The Associated Press receives support from Charles Schwab Foundation for educational and explanatory reporting to improve financial literacy. The independent foundation is separate from Charles Schwab and Co. Inc. The AP is solely responsible for its journalism.from Asia, so we ended up with 10 acres of invasive species. Watching the insects interact with those plants showed very clearly that our

So we put the plants that they require back. Ever since, I’ve been measuring the number of bird species that have bred on our property — 62 — and the number of moth species — 1,337 — that produce the caterpillars that those birds need to reproduce. And that tells me it works.About 80% of the plants in our residential landscapes are non-native plants. They don’t have to be invasive to wreck the food web. So that led me in a whole new research direction to find out what is happening to the food web.

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