U.S. companies say Canadian retailers are turning away products

U.S. companies say Canadian retailers are turning away products

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  1. No kidding, Canadians are done with the US so why risk business by having US products? You know art of the deal and such.

  3. Damn right. Trying to get to “net zero” on my American products. It’s my new cause!

  4. yes, we know… we said we’d do it and we are doing it.

    If these companies have issues they can take it up with Trump as he’s the one triggering the reaction.

  6. Well… no shit. Who would wanna have business with a country that‘s not only constantly threatening with tariffs and even annexation/invasion but also constantly lying?

  8. Everyone I know, friends and family is looking for ways to punish the US right now. I’ve never seen anything like it in my lifetime and I’m not a young guy. Supermarkets and big chain retailers here are adding maple leaf stickers on things made in Canada and it’s working. Lots of people I see holding their phones on items scanning to see points of origin. Patriotism has never been higher and if one thing I can credit to trump is unifying our nation. It’s just sad that the unification is at the cost of our friends that didn’t want any of this. Sorry about that.

  9. When your neighbour who you thought was your friend for over 100 years, backstabs you and calls your people “nasty” … is everyone surprised if we don’t want to deal with them?

  10. Was this a surprise?

    I don’t understand how it could be? Let’s just threaten their entire way of life and their history and culture.

    What do you mean they don’t want to trade with me anymore? The fucking arrogance and ignorance on display is unfathomable.

  11. “Canadians, at it again, trying to screw the US”, On average a Canadian used to spend $8500 a year on US products, while the average US citizen spends $1200 a year on Canadian products. A lot of Canadians are trying to get the amount they spend on US products as low as possible, because of the shitty treatment at the hands of the US. And once it’s down to zero, it will stay there for a long time.

  13. By the end of the day the stock market could be back in the 30s. Trump’s art of the deal involves crushing the typical Americans retirement plan. It should come as no surprise Canada wants no part of him or the U.S.

  14. Yup i will go out of my way to not support american good. Its led to some interesting recipe subs but looking at my cart knowing theres nothing american in there just feels so good.

  15. Was in the market to get a LAZBOY sofa set, but halted – all their products are imported from the US.

  16. > A dramatic reshuffling of Canada’s retail shelves illustrates the impact of patriotic consumerism in Canada, which imported nearly US$350 billion of products from the United States in 2024, making it its largest trading partner.

    I’m old enough to remember MAGA pontificating around “we don’t care”, “we don’t need Canada” etc.

    $350,000,000,000.00 USD in sales have evapourated. $350-billion. And this wasn’t because of the government counter-measures. We just refuse to buy your garbage.

    Remind me again how you don’t care 😀. Your tears will sustain me.

  17. Dude, our grocery stores 2 months ago noticed we were all starting to avoid American. To the point they put maple leafs on Canadian products now lol. Honestly I’ll buy Canadian first, anywhere else. I’ll only buy American if I have to because I have an allergy daughter. But I’m already working on alternatives there too. No one even told us to. We just all started doing it after the I dunno 3rd annexation threat lol.

    I’ll avoid American the rest of my Millennial life.

  20. When the boycott becomes embedded in the supply chain it will really start to bite as even non-boycotting consumers will do it inadvertently. 

  21. I saw a rack of US strawberries at the store marked down to 99 cents. No one was buying. 🇨🇦❤️

  24. Why even bother having a military when a foreign agent can ascend to the Presidency and destroy it within?

    US is only as strong as it’s weakest link and the American electorate is so dumb.

  25. This isn’t about Tarrifs for Canada. This is about treating our sovereignty. Trump said it’s an economic war, well we better figure out how to violate the Geneva Convention again and make it include economic fucking war.

    I dont care if the tariffs are dropped by 10 or 20%, it’s not about that. It’s about not respecting Canada as a fucking Country.

  26. As a Canadian, I can tell you our retailers are just the same as anywhere else. They want to make money. If they observe they are losing money on US products because their customers stopped buying them, the retailers will eventually stop stocking them. It’s not any more complicated than that.

    And should relations ever normalize again years down the road, I wouldn’t expect buying habits to return to what they were before. The US has probably lost Canadian customers for an entire generation at least.

  27. I think “Buy from anyone else than Trump’s USA” would also work.

  28. Canuck checking in, and the headline really has missed the point.

    The current administration has openly stated they want to Annex Canada and has implemented tariffs on goods. Consumers have made conscious choices of where they want to spend their money, and are actively avoiding US goods.

    The story is *Canadian consumers no longer purchasing US goods, retailers reacting to change.*

  29. A friend of mine works as a buyer for one of the major grocery chains in Canada and they’ve been seeking out new suppliers to offer Canadian alternatives to categories where they use to only carry American brands, such as Pickles.

    They’ve notified some American companies already that they’re reducing their selection (down from 5 products down to 2) to free up space for local alternatives.

    These aren’t short term changes.

  30. That’s because Canadians stand together. They’re done with us, that’s for sure. It’s sickening what trump and his cabal have done in 60 days.

  31. I heard a mother explaining to her young (6ish maybe?) child about why they were reading the labels in the store and only buying Canadian/ not American.

    This is a big change in Canadian purchasing habits that’s going to last for generations.

  33. Most likely it’s because us Canadians refuse to buy them, why would stores stock their shelves with product they can’t sell.

  34. They are turning products away because those things just wont sell here now. Not till this all gets sorted out. Canadians are done with the whole MAGA tariff bs. Canadian’s are done with the 51st state garbage. Personally, if there is another option that isn’t American, I will buy that instead. Like a lot of friends and family, I will avoid buying products from the US going forward. And any travel I can afford in the future will be to other beautiful places in the world that are not America. Canadian retailers won’t carry American products because currently the majority of consumers just view them as poison and don’t want them. Canadian’s don’t want this. I miss my American friends and family, and I understand that it’s not THEM that is doing this. The only thing I can do is “vote with my wallet”. So that’s what I’m going to do to make my displeasure known.

  35. There you go America.You can easily fall into your own trap. Make them suffer. Elbows up my dear Canadians. I’m on your side, I try my best to avoid products from the U.S.It isn’t easy. Because we tend to buy the same stuff over the years and also I try to avoid Müller Milch and other companies who adore the far right in Germany, so a lot to check these days. Stay strong. Bullies need to be put in their places. Deep down in dungeons. 🇩🇪 🇨🇦

  36. Good. Am American. Whatever you can do to help yourself, by all means do it. We just need to crash and burn here. Seems like the only way for the country to wake up and reset

  38. Trump wanted to kill globalism in the US and he’s doing a very good job of it. The US is going to be more isolated than North Korea at this rate.

  39. I took a look at everything I buy regularly and found Canadian or non-U.S. alternatives for almost everything. Now that I’ve made the switch, I won’t be going back to U.S. products, even after all this trade nonsense is over.

  40. Canadian here. I have not purchased a product from the USA in over two months.

    NOTHING. I am not alone. Our PM doesn’t need to put on tariffs, USA is Russia to us.

  41. In Québec, there is a small cie doing mayonaise that had to expand, because people stopped buying hellman’s and bought theres instead.

    Big win for them

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