I wish we had numbers. People will SAY that and then buy on Amazon anyway
It’s like when Walmart moves into a place. They destroy the local economy, the surviving mom and mom shops cost twice or three times as much, and it’s either Walmart or nothing.
It’ll take a few years to figure alternatives and go all in fully.
It’s been difficult, finding proper alternatives while navigating a move but we are finally Amazon free. I’m trying to find other ways to stop any US goods.
I cut Amazon, almost entirely, as soon as the boycott started. It took more time to get things off of AWS, I am really hoping everything I use is off of there.
Keep it up my Canadian bros. We deserve it down here, and the only thing these people listen to is money.
Me in the grocery store produce section…
Store: Made in USA
Me: Nah dawg
Store: Made in California
Me: A little better ig. If there’s nothing from Canada, how about Mexico?Separately but on the same topic:
In this new ‘elbows up’ era, patriotism = spending behaviour (/s)What do you expect us to do, strap bombs to our chests and hit the Peace Arch crossing? We do what is available to us.
I don’t expect that, no. Sorry for not being clear. I meant to bring awareness to how we’re being bathed with information about nationalistic purchasing behaviour:
- From Carney, although more so pre-election (eg, ‘elbows up’), and many provincial governments
- In so much of advertising in Canada, flaunting that a product is ‘made in Canada’ or whatever
- In similar messaging all over grocery stores - at the door, on the shelves
- And as a pretty popular mainstream news topic for a while
Although nationalistic purchasing behaviour can be part of what you do if you identify as a proud Canadian, concerned citizen - whatever - it’s not the whole repertoire/shebang. With the pervasiveness of this messaging, and the economic world we live in (that likes to profit off this stuff), I think there’s danger in us thinking the two are equal versus a parts vs. the whole thing
