Last trip to the grocery store I couldn’t find any non-US salad kits, and Silk NextMilk is made down there now, because I guess our plants were the listeria ones. Chip dip was surprisingly hard to find too, although I did it.

I’m very pleased with how many vegetables actually come from Mexico (definitely via the US though), and there’s even a few things you can get from greenhouses, so that situation is less dire than I’d expected.

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    15 days ago

    Whoever makes the best quality product against the competition, that’s what I buy regardless of where it’s made.

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      14 days ago

      I have no bone to pick with whatever American company either, but geopolitics is happening. Even boycott aside I expect the value for cost of American products may go abruptly down shortly.

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        13 days ago

        You can vote with your wallet. I don’t consider politics in what I purchase. I buy based on quality of product, not location.

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            12 days ago

            To get a better quality of product, you do have to pay more money to get the quality. Something can be a high price and be a good deal for the money. If the price exceeds the product quality, then don’t buy, but also sometimes buying cheap is too expensive.

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              Well, if there’s tariffs, the price of US imports goes up and the quality doesn’t, so even if (for instance) you don’t care about other people at all it’s not a good choice. Best to get ready.

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                  I’m a random person on the internet. I don’t make rules at all.

                  I can say that that would be irrational, if there’s a similar quality item for less. Unless you actually just prefer the US to Canada, in which case I question your trustworthiness as a fellow citizen.