I can think of two reasons..Originally Posted by Suppa Hobbit Mage
- Tariff information is useful to consumers. If a buyer on Amazon sees that $145 of the $245 price is attributable to tariffs, then the buyer will know to look further before purchasing, in the hope of finding a similar product not subject to the tariff.
- Inflation information is less useful to consumers and more difficult for sellers to determine. Inflation is not uniform across different products but tends to be uniform across the same product. For example, eggs may go up in price more than bacon, but all brands of eggs tend to go up by the same price. Even if Amazon could track the inflation rate for every type of product, that information would not be very helpful to consumers when trying to decide which brand of eggs to buy.
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