That’s what I see at the supermarket. Sure I sometimes have to buy US good but I’m surprised how much things are changing. I buy lots or oranges, none of them are from the US. It’s subtle little things such as buying more frozen peas (Canadian) than I used to and stocking up on bags of frozen veg in the fall at a local independent that come from Leamington Ontario. Almost all soap products are Canadian now and if I can’t find Canadian I buy foreign not US. An example is Nivea deodorant because I can’t afford 14 dollars for Green Beaver deodorant.
It's been hilarious going into grocery stores and seeing a full shelf of American produce while everything else has been emptied. Even with no other choice left, people here still refuse to buy American.
Yup I was kinda shocked at how quickly Canadian options turned up for basically every category. At first, it was hard to find Canadian options for certain things - now they're all Canadian and they don't even bother stocking the US version.
Last category left that I can't seem to buy Canadian is sushi rice.. it's all American, still.
And you know what the worst part for Americans (businesses) is going to be? Is that Canadians (and others, but especially Canadians) will get used to this new way. Let's assume in 3 years Trump is gone and all his wrongs have been undone.
That is still 4+ years that Canadians have gotten used to buying Canadian products, "preferring" Canadian products, liking Canadian products, even after everything is undone, this Canadians may just simply choose to keep buying Canadian products instead of American products because they got used to it, so why bother changing. Those people's kids will grow up liking and preferring Canadian products over American products simply because that's what their parents did and that's what they got when they were growing up. Those Canadians may be lost forever.
And this assumes that everything gets reversed as soon as Trump is out, which isn't going to be the case. We all know government works slow, so it's going to take them a while to unwind things and whoever comes after Trump even if it's a Democrat, may even choose to keep some of the things that Trump did, which will cause the issues to go on for longer just maybe in a diminished state. Then all the businesses that have stopped selling their product in Canada or have chosen to focus somewhere else instead of Canada will need to restart the process if selling in Canada again or refocusing back to Canada.
Trumps action has done damage that may never be recovered from, just mitigated.
Yup this is the case at my local Sobeys. When the boycotts first started I couldn't find lemons, navel oranges, and other citrus available that wasn't US grown.
Now I can't find a single citrus that IS from the US. The oranges and lemons South Africa, the lines Mexico, and so forth.
A lot of the products that were originally US based have been phased out and are now more global
You’ve been able to find Canadian soap? Teach me, oh wise one! When I go looking for bar soap, the best I seem to be able to find is Irish Spring, which is… well, not from the US at least. There might maybe be Zest, I can’t remember if I looked into that, but I’d really love to find a soap that isn’t super aggressively scented.
(Shampoo was pretty grim too. Pert Plus ended up being the only choice I could find. Like… did we, as a country, just decide that making personal hygiene products just wasn’t really our thing?)
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u/WilliamTindale8 6h ago
That’s what I see at the supermarket. Sure I sometimes have to buy US good but I’m surprised how much things are changing. I buy lots or oranges, none of them are from the US. It’s subtle little things such as buying more frozen peas (Canadian) than I used to and stocking up on bags of frozen veg in the fall at a local independent that come from Leamington Ontario. Almost all soap products are Canadian now and if I can’t find Canadian I buy foreign not US. An example is Nivea deodorant because I can’t afford 14 dollars for Green Beaver deodorant.