Larger retailers have more pricing power with vendors to reduce the impact. As far as their ability to deal with the end consumer, they also have more financial strength to absorb what could very well be a temporary pricing increase.

Moody’s lead retail analyst Charlie O’Shea, in a recent note in which he commented on the impact of a 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports that’s scheduled to go into effect Sept. 1, as reported by MarketWatch.