Grocery stores have so much unsold US food they don't bother to put it on shelves.

Canadian here. Everyone I know is trying to avoid American products when we can. My parents switched from orange juice to apple juice for breakfast. People buy produce from Mexico to avoid American, enough that supermarkets try harder at sourcing outside the US wherever possible.

Adding my Canadian voice to the pile: it's very real and common. It's common enough that our biggest grocery chain has updated their labelling to be much clearer on the source of products

Pretty much everyone I know avoids any American products at the grocery store, and I know a few people that have switched off products they like to Canadian alternatives (like ketchup, cheese, etc). My family bought Heinz our whole lives and now we've swapped to French's, which we've found we like better so we won't be switching back anyways. I think one of the biggest things is losing a lot of long time customers and brand loyalty.

Leaving american products and produce on the shelf is very much a thing.

Abandoning American alcohol and never looking back is a thing.

Actively replacing American products with local, European or Asian trade partners is a thing.

I think that a lot of this will be ongoing, even after the Trump regime falls.

Another Canadian here and I'll tell ya, buying American ain't what it used to be. It's not just a boycott, it's straight up reputational ruination.

There's gotta be some people who don't give a shit but I haven't really met any. I don't know anyone who's taken a trip to the US during this admin and many who've cancelled trips. Even my elderly mom is using apps to avoid American products. It's definitely not just the typical folks you'd expect to be calling for boycotts.

Canadian from Quebec here - everyone in my family and friends and every co-workers i have is trying to avoid Americans products, vacations, cars, etc as much as possible, every day.

It's not even a spite thing, not anymore at least - it's just a new habit we're collectively developing.

Tod Maffin has been an amazing and hilarious voice for months through all this...

Canadian in Ontario, only if there is no alternative will I buy American.

You should believe it because politicians in the affected states are whining about it.

They're whining to us instead of to the orange shit king. But that's a different problem.

I don't think the USA would be bitching and moaning about Canadian tourists no longer visiting their shithole or Canadians not buying their alcohol if it were just a handful of people taking part in the boycott.

It's a common topic of conversation in the grocery store aisles and in the coffee shops.

Nobody is happy about how Trump’s America is trying to fuck over our country.

Dude, the American imported oranges have been going moldy on the grocery store shelves since Biden left office.

People will go hungry before they buy fascist.

It's not just the tariffs and other bullshit.

I can't trust American products to be safe.

This is starting to become pretty widespread. My local grocery and liquor stores don't carry any US products, and i don't miss them at all.

Thanks a lot everyone for your answers, you give me hope that this orange guy is not going to get away with everything he does

it's common enough among everyone I know. probably at least 15% that actively avoid US products and another 15% that passively avoid them.

edit: I do know a good number of people who just shake their head at the US and haven't made their actual behaviours known. but I also know a few people who have cut out american products as much as possible, including altering their diets and what services they use. it's not just "oh I'll buy the Canadian version" — it's "oh, it's american, nevermind I'll just find/do something else"

Very common. I've notices the US products are basically permanently on sale, and for the last year it's commonplace to see non-US products replacing the US products. I take that as a sign US made products just aren't selling all that well.

The grocery stores kinda to a half-assed labeling effort to indicate which products are Canadian, but it's really inconsistent. Seems like they don't want to be doing this, but are responding to pressure from customers.

Try to book a hotel in Canada right now. Everything is booked out because Canadians are taking their holidays within Canada instead of going to the US.

And yeah, I'm not buying US made products anymore. There are some Maple-MAGA types that aren't, but it seems a lot of people are checking labels, and putting the products with "Made in USA" back on the shelf and getting something else.