I still can't find evidence of anyone that has actually paid tariffs - nothing seems to be 3x more expensive compared to before the tariffs supposedly kicked in.
I work for a freight forwarder. We have some customers that exported to the US and were hit with the boosted tariffs. Only a few smaller air freight shipments, so not container loads full - they decided to eat the extra cost to try to keep momentum, just on those shipments.
But it was only ever a short term strategy; if they had persisted they would have had to reconsider.
A ton of Walmart's "Mainstay" brand items from China got price-jacked even before their earnings call. Items which were $0.99 before went to $3 or even $7. I have a price tracker that watches a bunch of this stuff.
Some of these items are now completely out of stock, even after the prices went up x3 or x7.
You might just be fortunate enough to have not purchased the items that went up. A simple Internet search and you'll find a bunch that did. There were also a lot of goods that ended up in bonded warehouses to wait out the eventual "TACO" (Trump Always Chickens Out) reduction of the tariffs.
Why would retail prices triple? Tariffs are on wholesale price.
Prices are definitely higher for products that didn't have a lot of inventory already in warehouses (mostly new models of higher priced goods, DJI, Lenovo, etc.) - that is when they're being sold at all. Quite a few products are simply out of stock now.
For cheaper things where there's still warehouses full of them, prices remain the same.
