Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 21,196
Ideas please.
Should have been a question probably.
Should have been a question probably.
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[Finance] How best to boycott USA goods.
- Thread starter Pevenseagull
- Start date
- Jun 20, 2021
- 4,181
Delete X (Twitter ) straight away obviously.
The American Express Studium might be difficult to boycott
The American Express Studium might be difficult to boycott
Mr Bridger
Sound of the suburbs
Don’t have anything to do with American Express…. Oh.
- Jan 25, 2025
- 246
I’ll be cancelling my Microsoft 365 subscription and explaining to them exactly why on the form.
It's become everyone's new favourite pastime in Canada.
I've cancelled a few services in recent weeks - Netflix, MS 365 and XBox subscriptions, a couple of others. Annoyingly, my annual Prime subscription renewed before I got chance to cancel.
As for specific goods in shops, they've started putting "Made in Canada" signs quite prominently here. Otherwise I try and look at labels, but it can be tricky because things can come from the US and redistributed locally.
Avoid Starbucks, McDonalds, BK etc.
Don't buy stuff from Amazon.
I've cancelled a few services in recent weeks - Netflix, MS 365 and XBox subscriptions, a couple of others. Annoyingly, my annual Prime subscription renewed before I got chance to cancel.
As for specific goods in shops, they've started putting "Made in Canada" signs quite prominently here. Otherwise I try and look at labels, but it can be tricky because things can come from the US and redistributed locally.
Avoid Starbucks, McDonalds, BK etc.
Don't buy stuff from Amazon.
hart's shirt
Well-known member
As well as American Express, that'll include Apple, Amazon, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Ford, Meta, Citigroup, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Disney, Dell, Proctor & Gamble, Boeing, Nvidia, Pfizer, Intel, HP, Nike and Coca Cola amongst many others.
Whilst I admire the underlying sentiment, it's probably fair to say that you'll have your work cut out.
Whilst I admire the underlying sentiment, it's probably fair to say that you'll have your work cut out.
banjo
GOSBTS
I was with you brothers and sisters, right up to the last point.
I was with you brothers and sisters, right up to the last point.
It is difficult to avoid Amazon. Although, I'd say it's more difficult for us in Canada because we have fewer alternative options for a lot of things. It's a lot easier in the UK.
Whoislloydy
Well-known member
It's been a big talking point here in Canada since Trump first threatened tariffs. Grocery stores have started putting "made in Canada" or "made in Mexico" stickers on shelves to help people.
Anger
Well-known member
- Jul 21, 2017
- 886
Agree it will be hard to eradicate U.S. companies but it is worthwhile everyone being conscious about all purchases and buying from non-U.S. companies when you can. Any impact is better than no impact and the more who do this the better.
It’s Rola Cola for me from now on.
Seriously though, I’ve already scrapped my U.S. Holiday that I would have been having later this year and I have a long track record of boycotting companies which deliver poor service, so I reckon I can apply the same mindset to boycotting ‘The land of the selfish and the home of the morally bankrupt’.
Whoislloydy
Well-known member
We stopped using Amazon in January 2023 and honestly it hasn't been that hard.
My plan to avoid going the US completely this year was completely scuppered by Air France. I was supposed to be taking a direct flight from Paris to Toronto on Monday, but there was some issue with the plane and they decided I was one of the people to get booted off the replacement flight in a smaller plane. So, they put my on a later replacement flight connecting in Detroit. To say I was fuming, would be an understatement. It took me 26 hours to get from Malta to Toronto and I had to enter the US.
Air France can go f*** themselves.
Air France can go f*** themselves.
hart's shirt
Well-known member
Perhaps a temporary unofficial renaming might be in order?
The Ukrainian Express Stadium.
I have been making a concious effort to try other options before looking at Amazon, in recent years. I'm going to step up that effort this year. It's annoying my annual Prime membership renewed, I wasn't paying enough attention to it.
EDIT: I've just realised I can cancel now and get a refund on my membership. Result!
Perhaps a temporary unofficial renaming of the stadium might be in order?
The Ukrainian Express Stadium.
And everyone wear Albion shirts from the pre-Nike era.
FatSuperman
Well-known member
- Feb 25, 2016
- 2,960
It doesn't matter how hard it is, or how little impact it feels like we're having, you can guarantee that American firms will be carefully looking at their sales, particularly non-US sales, and it is near-certain that they will be trending down. They will start to lay on political pressure to the US
Here's an idea (as the OP asked for ideas) - I've mentioned this book before in other threads - read this book to understand the scale of the challenge that anyone who seeks to boycott faces. You might need to buy it other than from Amazon. If you haven't read it, pre prepared to be depressed.