• 🇨🇦 tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    About a year ago, there was a boycott on the Loblaws supermarket chain in protest of their boasting record profits at a time when grocery inflation was out of control. It lasted about a month before kind of fizzling out.

    But I think by comparison, this buy Canadian movement has legs. It’s a major nationwide shift in people’s spending habits. And the key word here may be habits. Let’s say for argument’s sake that after 4 years of Trump, a new administration comes in and repeals all the tariffs. By that time, people will have settled into alternate brands across a wide range of consumer goods, and it may be difficult to convince them to switch back again. There’s a certain inertia in human behaviour. So the effects of this could potentially go on quite a bit longer than the tariff war.

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      21 hours ago

      Oh yes it’ll go on for a long time and might never return to the previous state.

      American products got world wide recognition in a time when USA was the peak of western culture, technology and quality.

      With or without tariffs and boycotts, people everywhere in the world will once again have to question if they even want America products. This doesn’t go well with the increased consumer awareness that is happening everywhere else but in USA.

      UK turning down clorinated American chickens is the funniest thing today, like eew brother, eew what’s that?

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      1 day ago

      Tariffs also have a way of sticking around long after the reason for their introduction is forgotten.