Symbolizes well with the upside down US flag in distress.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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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.
Ah, I didn't see this post.
https://bsky.app/profile/saelliott.bsky.social/post/3ljxf6ou6l22a btw for the post on Bsky.
Thanks!
love me some direct action.
That's atleast better than picking up a product and leaving it somewhere else because you decided that you didnt need it anymore.
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.
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!
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.
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...
I don't think that at a personal level...
To be blunt, they don't need to be happy about it. The company is still losing productivity over this situation, even if the employee is mad about it.
In fact, I'm kind of glad they're mad about it because that means they're gonna make mistakes and work slower for a while. The company will lose even more money, and assuming they're paying any attention they'll realize it's because of the American products being defaced constantly and it's just not worth stocking them
The difference is the purpose. When people force stores to clean up after them for no reason, it can increase workloads and staffing requirements. It's pennies on the dollar, but its still a violation of the social contract, especially when you factor in the employee's personal involvement in cleaning up a mess that shouldn't exist.
When people force stores to clean up after them for a political purpose, the cost is part of the point. It costs time and therefore money to continuously re-face those products, and therefore encourages the store to reduce its stock and shelving of that product.
Again, pennies on the dollar, so significant inventory changes would require extreme customer participation in the trend, but at the very least you may spread some awareness and find some solidarity in your daily routine. May even find like-minded employees and managers who "didn't notice" or consistently "forget" to fix it.
I think the framing needs to show that it isn't going to be "more work", it's just different work. The people being tasked with this clean up would've been doing something else, not just standing around.
Minimum wage employees indeed would've been doing something else, and they will still need to do that something else later. Along with the other things that used to be someone elses job that now falls onto this person. Grocery stores wont hire more workers or be understanding workers cant complete their tasks.
No offense but have you worked at a grocery store? Nobody really cares that much. If you think I'm slacking off, then look at the security cameras.
Such a revolutionary idea
Work at work crazy haha
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?
It's for a purpose, and it's not too much of a pita.
Fine, we'll just make our products spherical.
Lol
Love the idea!
Have I mentioned how much I love my Canadian neighbors? Good job!
It's great because it will also affect people who don't care
I love the 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
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.
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
Same here. Those 8 hours were gone anyways, made no difference to 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
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.
Many of my local stores are using red maple leafs and changing the barcode names to indicate Canadian made products.
Write your regultors, ask them to make the country of orientation a mandatory labeling requirement. Make it big and obvious.