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Eugene

(64,200 posts) Sat Mar 15, 2025, 10:38 AM Mar 15

Canadian grocery stores are sidelining US products -- and American businesses are feeling the pinch

Source: Business Insider

Canadian grocery stores are sidelining US products — and American businesses are feeling the pinch

Katherine Li
Fri, March 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM EST 4 min read

• Canadian customers are telling US businesses they will stop buying US products.
• Grocery chains in Canada are sidelining American products and expecting their sales to drop.
• The boycott, in addition to retaliatory tariffs, could have an impact on the US agricultural industry.

Canadian businesses large and small have been turning down American products, starting with non-essentials like alcohol, and spreading toward a wider variety of food products that economic experts say could hit different levels of the agriculture supply chain.

"Basically, overnight, everything changed, maybe irreparably," said Alisa Gorokhova, a resident of Quebec, as she recalled the morning after the tariff announcements came for the first time. "There's suddenly 'made in Canada' labels on things and American booze is gone from the shelves."

Gorokhova said she now sees shoppers actively checking where everything is made, taking the task of boycotting US products seriously.

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Canadian grocery stores are sidelining US products -- and American businesses are feeling the pinch (Original Post) Eugene Mar 15 OP

Nobody should be buying ANYTHING from the US if it can be helped. Wingus Dingus Mar 15 #1

And to think this psychopath got elected with under 1/3 of the vote. Diamond_Dog Mar 15 #2

I thought he had about 1/2 of the vote. fargone Mar 15 #6

I'm sorry - Diamond_Dog Mar 15 #7

Good XanaDUer2 Mar 15 #3

Tell us, Mr Food Wholesaler how much money did you contribute Vogon_Glory Mar 15 #4

So much winning. So much respect. Irish_Dem Mar 15 #5

The problem with "Made in Canada" is it only has to be 51% from Canadian sources OnlinePoker Mar 15 #8

Wingus Dingus

(8,892 posts)

1. Nobody should be buying ANYTHING from the US if it can be helped.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 10:44 AM

Mar 15

We need to be punished and feel it, it's that simple. Nothing else will break the MAGA fever except our economy shitting the bed.

Diamond_Dog

(36,463 posts)

2. And to think this psychopath got elected with under 1/3 of the vote.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 10:45 AM

Mar 15

And look at all the worldwide destruction he’s caused already.

fargone

(344 posts)

6. I thought he had about 1/2 of the vote.

Reply to Diamond_Dog (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 11:37 AM

Mar 15

Diamond_Dog

(36,463 posts)

7. I'm sorry -

Reply to fargone (Reply #6)

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 11:39 AM

Mar 15

I should have said “less than 1/3 of eligible voters” voted for the POS.

My bad.

XanaDUer2

(15,714 posts)

3. Good

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 10:45 AM

Mar 15

Vogon_Glory

(9,746 posts)

4. Tell us, Mr Food Wholesaler how much money did you contribute

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 10:51 AM

Mar 15

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to the Trump presidential campaign? And how much of a return are you getting for your investment?

Not only do we Democrats want to know, but I suspect that your stockholders and creditors want to know too!

Irish_Dem

(67,214 posts)

5. So much winning. So much respect.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 10:52 AM

Mar 15

OnlinePoker

(5,931 posts)

8. The problem with "Made in Canada" is it only has to be 51% from Canadian sources

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 01:26 PM

Mar 15

Product of Canada means 98% (including packaging). Because of labeling agreements under the USMCA (which Trump signed but now says was a terrible deal), content origins no longer have to be shown so it's hard to see if we're buying non-American food products. I have been checking every label a lot more closely now, though.

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