Canadian idea, what do you think ?

Oooh yeah that is a good idea

Clever. I approve.

Maybe turn them around so they're all backwards. Might be better for odd-shapped containers
- Only problem is, because of our languages laws, the back side is just the same label but in the other language.
- I'm liking it simply upside down, label still forward. It kind of burns into memory seeing the familiar label upside down. I don't recognize the backs of most grocery shelf products.
- Both

Good idea, will be doing this in my german supermarket.
Fuck this nazi shit.
- Darf ich wagen, Sie zu fragen, zu welchem Supermarkt Sie gehen?

I love this.

Imma do this, but in Europe.
Kind of related: the largest supermarket in my hometown used to put "country of origin" flags next to wine bottles only. Now they're expanding them, aisle after aisle, to everything, it seems.
- I'm gonna do this too... Oh wait. I'm American. Blast!
  
  A little harder to tell origin, but you could do it for red state products...
  
  You can still do it. 😉

Can we do this in the USA with Canadian products so we know to buy them?

I like that there’sa Canadian maple leaf on all the Canadian products but I would prefer an American flag on American goods. I don’t mind buying European or products of other countries, just avoiding the u.s.

Sadly it's more difficult to turn computers, websites, tech services, and operating systems upside down.
It's a nice idea for small physical products but it would also be nice to have a movement to boycott and give alternatives to American tech services.
- Harder, yes. But with some know-how, it's entirely doable: https://blog.dustinbarnett.com/2013/11/upside-down-ternet-raspberry-pi-edition.html
- I'm one of the many recent immigrants from reddit so I guess that's my start to alternatives.
  I don't think I can walk away from many of the American tech services I use, but what I have done is reviewed what I use, change what I can and walk away from what I can. I've curtailed my optional spend on American companies, goods, and services. We can all do that at least.
  
  Same here. I'm cutting things out and slowly switching to alternatives where I can.
  Individually dropping these products and services won't do much in isolation but as we're seeing with Tesla, there is power as a group.
  Next on my list is the Google suite. I use docs and sheets a ton for Uni work and home/hobby stuff.
- Sadly it’s more difficult to turn computers, websites, tech services, and operating systems upside down.
  Challenge accepted!
  (Warning: May not work on any version of Windows other than 93.)
  
  https://hackaday.com/2023/12/31/welcome-to-the-year-of-the-diagonal-linux-desktop/
- I'm almost there! Gonna install a new OS on my phone in the weekend, then I'm completely murica free.
  Next step: convincing and helping others
  Edit: except my payment cards, although I try to use my phone whenever I can (which still uses SWIFT, I guess)
  
  Graphene?

That's atleast better than picking up a product and leaving it somewhere else because you decided that you didnt need it anymore.
- I hate the mofos who do that.
  
  It's ok, I only do it with ice cream.
  
  Gotta love when you find a steak that's already pre room temperature. Saves you the trouble when you get it home!
  
  there's people who do that?
- What if, in this case, the 'somewhere else' is in the bin? Or just randomly chucked through the ceiling tiles?
  A sort of fruit based 'paint ball' would surely stop them from importing US produce.
  
  That’s not fair to the workers in the store. It’s not management that’s cleaning up.

Symbolizes well with the upside down US flag in distress.

love me some direct action.
- I'm waiting to see this done with Teslas.
  
  Whistling Diesel beat everyone to it years ago

Sounds good, but it depends on each individual market's management whether they'll have their lowly peons do the extra work of undoing that every time.
- The workers would still be paid for the re-facing of the product. Maybe the store would realise that USA made products aren't worth stocking if there's more wages required to fix up the shelf aesthetics. Workers are employed to work, if there isn't work they'll get sent home or have their shifts shortened. I don't mind having to work at work, it's what they're paying me for.
  
  Such a revolutionary idea
  Work at work crazy haha
  
  You most likely didn't mean it that way, but I'm seeing an alternate, unpleasant interpretation that can be misconstrued from your words.
  To use an example, it's like those people who leave products they reconsider buying in random places due to being lazy, then say something like "I'm helping the workers stay employed by giving them work to do." Which isn't a very nice thing to do.
  I don't think that at a personal level there are many people who would say "yay, more work" in this kind of situation...
  
  The only problem with that logic, at least from my experience working retail, is that no jobs would be added just to face the shelves faster. The existing workers would just be expected to spend less time on every other task during their shift to make up for it.
  It's the same sort of logic as people who just like to leave carts anywhere they feel like in the parking lot. Someone gets paid to retrieve them after all, right?

Ah, I didn't see this post.
https://bsky.app/profile/saelliott.bsky.social/post/3ljxf6ou6l22a btw for the post on Bsky.
- Thanks!

Fine, we'll just make our products spherical.
- So they roll upside down by themselves?
  
  There is no up or down with spheres. Checkmate Canadians!
- Lol

do people feel they need to screenshot as they don't want to appropriate it or is it just a convenience thing where cutting and pasting text does not work so screenshots instead? Im curious as I have a text bias.
- One reason could be that it makes the post start with three implicit upvotes because you know there are at least three other people who like this idea.

I love the idea!

Love the idea!

Stores should have stickers indicating if a product is local and/or made in EU

Have I mentioned how much I love my Canadian neighbors? Good job!

Remove the price tag that's typically on the shelf below the product. It's usually just a little paper insert behind some plastic.
Little US flag or Trump stickers that you can discretly add to packaging.
Placing the products upside down is a good one.
For loose produce: place fruit or veg in the little carry bags that are usually nearby, as much as you can fit. Then, just put the filled and tied bag back.
- Many larger places have replaced the paper tag with an eink display these days, it's actually hard to notice it's not paper unless you look closely

That's friggin awesome.

It's great because it will also affect people who don't care

I'm definitely running with this idea :-)

seems like a pretty bad idea, i think this is just gonna inconvenience the workers. officially "made in EU/USA" labels would be better imo
- I can't speak for every worker, but I was a grocery clerk. Facing is a regular part of the job, and it's for a good cause. It wouldn't bother me
  
  Exactly, especially jobs where you don't have to directly interact with customers or management while doing it. I loved stock room work for the same reason
  
  Same here. Those 8 hours were gone anyways, made no difference to me.
- Labels would be better but US producers aren't going to label their products voluntarily are they.
  It's a great way to communicate foreign products to other shoppers and remind people that buying local is still important after the news cycle moves on.
  It may be somewhat inconvenient for employees but that will financially inconvenience employers and encourage them to discontinue more foreign product lines.
  
  US producers aren't going to label their products voluntarily
  They used to, proudly. But that was months ago.
- Labels are not always sufficient. Labels for Country of Origin or Made in Europe (or China) can still mean that the profits go to USA, would for me also be a reason to look for alternatives.
- Write your regultors, ask them to make the country of orientation a mandatory labeling requirement. Make it big and obvious.
- Many of my local stores are using red maple leafs and changing the barcode names to indicate Canadian made products.

I am trying to buy local as much as possible where I live.

I wonder if they do the same with the guns and bombs the US sells them.

And now Jeremy has to stay an hour after close to face the shelves because his asshole manager won't let him leave until the shelves are in perfect order.
I appreciate the sentiment, but this is just possibly ruining somebody's night that just wanted to clock out and meet up with their friends.
Maybe someone passionate about this movement could distribute rolls of tiny US flag stickers to consumers so they could mark offending products, though poor Jeremy would still possibly be tasked with scraping them off.
I don't know. Jeremy needs a better job but there aren't any.
- FWIW I worked in a supermarket. Go nuts, nobody cares. My asshole manager would make me keep moving everything anyways, and I later learned this was to prevent customers from easily finding the things they wanted.
  Wasting company time hurt the company, not me. I didn't mind collecting shopping carts either. My friends weren't waiting for me to get off work because the shifts were irregular anyways.
  I didn't even care about stuff that risked the store shutting down, because nobody intends to work at a grocery store for very long. Nothing hurt my pay because it was already minimum wage. Go ahead and steal, I sure wasn't paid to care.
- Well at least he will get paid for extra time right?
  ...
  Right?
  
  Yep. And probably get bitched at for going over 39.9 hours (or is that just a US thing?)