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.
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I'm gonna do this too... Oh wait. I'm American. Blast!
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.
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, also I try to use my phone whenever I can (which still uses SWIFT, I guess)
That's friggin awesome.
I'm definitely running with this idea :-)
Symbolizes well with the upside down US flag in distress.
Stores should have stickers indicating if a product is local and/or made in EU
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 test does not work so screenshots instead? Im curious as I have a text bias.
I am trying to buy local as much as possible where I live.
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!
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.
I only do it with other people's prescriptions! Bwahaha!!
there's people who do that?
way too many, yes.
especially great if they put something refrigerated on an unrefrigerated shelf. workers will now have to throw it away because they can't say how long it was out of the fridge
Gotta love when you find a steak that's already pre room temperature. Saves you the trouble when you get it home!
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love me some direct action.
Fine, we'll just make our products spherical.
Lol
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...
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 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
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.
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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.
Love the idea!
Have I mentioned how much I love my Canadian neighbors? Good job!
I love the idea!
It's great because it will also affect people who don't care
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