A community dedicated to buying Canadian products.
I can't speak for anyone else here, but personally this whole fiasco was the final kick in the ass I needed.
I'm not looking for the US to fix themselves so I can buy from them again, I'm looking to divorce them for good.
They'll probably pull back from the brink in the next few years. I will still avoid buying American.
They'll probably go through a period of rebuilding and political/economic outreach. I will still avoid them.
I think the whole world is waking up to this. You don't try to get back with your toxic ex, you dump their ass and fuck a hot european.
A country that operates like a corporation caused you to have brand loyalty lol
As an embarrassed american, I agree.
You can't recover from what you are.
As an american, please keep this up.
In the words of Omar Little, "oh indeed."
“It’s all in the game (yo)”
Pretty sure betraying their allies and bringing back absolute monarchies are also contributing to this.
Absolutely!
I'm doing my best to give the red states the single finger salute and avoid their products. Purchased a case of Molson Canadian and Labatt's Blue Light...lol! Bottles only!
Oooof, I promise you we have better beer than that! But damned if I don't appreciate the support!
American here. We spend more money in Canada in the first quarter than we did in the USA. We loved returning to Quebec again for a visit, and also spending a week in Alberta for the first time. Our president is an idiot, and he's harming my Canadian brothers and sisters. Keep buying Canadian, and I'll try to keep doing the same.
Thanks for visiting! I’m happy you enjoyed your stay. I’m from Québec and I love hearing people enjoy it : )
Thanks for visiting, we appreciate it, really!
We can't wait to come back! I hope we'll still be welcome in your wonderful country in the future. I would not blame Canada a bit for turning us away at the border however. Please continue to protect not only the land but the idea of Canada. Its a spark of modern enlightenment too important to be extinguished as it is in the USA right now under our current president.
Thank you very much for your support.
Embarrassed American here and I hope the rest of the world keeps it up, these stupid assholes only speak one language and it's money.
I fully believe half of them will delude themselves into thinking it's just part of cancel culture (woke-ism or whatever the raison d’être), and if they just keep holding on to technocrat authoritarianism just a little longer, the world will have to give in.
Look at all those eggs! I bet their price is acceptable right now! I had to mortgage the backyard to buy some eggs here.
I'm only buying European products, and even got some Canadian stuff. No US products at all. Ditched all meta, amazon, google, disney. Hope the US economy is going to take more hard hits, so people realise the Orange Toddler needs to go
Please keep it up! The US economy needs to feel significant pain if we're to wake up from this ketamine coma or whatever the fuck has happened.
I'm curious what Canadian stuff made its way to you. I think one thing that should be a more well known thing is Honey Dill Sauce. Yum!
As much as I love people buying stuff from MB, honey dill is obscenely simple to make
Honey Dill Mayo
You can do equal parts honey and mayo or adjust them to your preference, it's an extremely forgiving recipe. I do usually around half the amount of honey to mayo.
Nope never trust them again. We the world need to diversify.
I'm American, I needed new work boots. Got some Canada Wests. They are high quality and very comfy.
American here too. I needed snow boots for our trip to Alberta. I specifically wanted Canadian. I bought a pair of Kamik boots. While I couldn't find Canadian manufactured snow boots, these were at least a Canadian company (made in Vietnam). They performed amazingly and kept my feet warm and dry while tromping through the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
I believe Kamik makes work boots too.
The new red wings!
As an American, please, more more! It's not like they can make the minimum wage lower, they're already only giving us the dusty crumbs of profits. Let them burn.
I've already cut ties with Walmart, and will be drastically diverting purchases away from Amazon whenever possible.
Once you get it in your mind that "yeah, I'm not supporting Nazis", it's really easy to reject anything and everything American.
And for anything that isn't made in Canada or by a Canadian company, I'm happy to support our allies from around the world, too.
Depending where you are it's honestly not hard to avoid amazon.
I've cancelled prime in January and since then, I found that every thing I needed and got there for convenience, I got from elsewhere for the same if not less and with the same kind of shipping speed.
Hell, just this week I was setting up my old vita for my son and found I needed a replacement charger. I found it from a used game store in Ontario, came to me in 2 days.
I'm ashamed of being lazy these past few years and using them so much when I could have supported local businesses instead...
I'll add - dumped Amazon a bit ago and wish I'd done it sooner. Finding lots of other online stores and getting more quality products. Haven't shopped at Walmart in decades. Trying to walk the walk more and it's improving my qol.
Yeah it is amazing how much you realize when that option is taken away.
I cancelled Prime’s auto renewal, I think my membership is up in November, but I have uninstalled all the Amazon apps from all of my devices.
I've got some Amazon gift card balance on my account from Christmas. I'm not sure if it would be better to spend that (which would mean buying from Amazon) or to leave it (which would mean letting Amazon keep my money.)
The best you can do if you want to spend that on Amazon is to look for Canadian manufacturers. Amazon has a lot of small, local businesses, especially on food items.
Edit: also consider that Amazon already has the money if it's a gift card. Spend it on stuff you need and don't sweat it. Finding Canadian items should be easy.
Was also about to comment this. Amazon already has the money from the gift card purchase. Not spending it would technically leave Amazon with more profits. Try to find Canadian products there and use only the money from the gift card. Thanks for doing that : )
Maybe buy some groceries and donate them to a food bank to get rid of it? Then at least someone in need gets something.
Given the planned government sector reduction, we should expect a much more than 1.5% decrease.
Yup! But every bit helps!
Californian here. Thank you. Keep up the heat. Those of us on the inside fighting for what's right need your help in putting as much pressure on these assholes as possible.
I think it might be time for those of us in the blue states to offer a reciprocal sales tax break to our Canadian, European, and Mexican allies to offset the tariff idiocy. If CA nixed it's sales tax for "Allied Countries", that's roughly 10% we could trim the tariff impact by. If it's reciprocal, then it could be a way to mitigate Trump's effect on our shared financial interests. I'd be more than willing to vote for this.
Dumped all the social media for us and our small business as well as my art sales. Shut down Amazon and the streaming stuff. No more American big box or fast food. The garden is much bigger cause fuck Galen Weston and Sobeys too. Don't forget those assholes are profiting big from all this shit. I teach a cooking class for kids and I think I might expand that to adults this fall as well.
Slightly related but I just bought this patch
(Happy to provide a link if anyone is interested)
Good.
Agreed. Make the assholes at the top feel it where it hurts.
BUT dont sell cheap when it crashes. Thats what they are hoping for- to scoop up the remaining assets on the cheap.
I'm not really seeing any effects yet and our government is still at it.
So keep at it.
Don't stop until all communication stops and you just see smoke coming from our direction.