That's atleast better than picking up a product and leaving it somewhere else because you decided that you didnt need it anymore.
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I hate the mofos who do that.
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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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.
I'm gonna do this too... Oh wait. I'm American. Blast!
You can still do it. 😉
Pff, Americans don't buy American, that shit is trash.
Lol.
This reminds me of someone who ones was really sad about "german quality", as they intentionally bought a tool box from a german brand. Turned out they, unfortunately, picked the cheapest one "Brüder Mannesmann". Which is basically a german sales front for whatever they can cheaply resell (so basically fancy AliExpress with a CE stamp). Their "rust-free" tools turned orange faster than even chinese bridges could collapse.
Unfortunately this whole price war causes actual german tool manufacturers like Bosch to go down in quality as well, at least for their value kits. Of course the same is true for Japanese' Makita. And with the Internet being infested with bots and paid reviews (i.e. lies) and local shops also being paid to tell you marketing nonsense… it's so god damn hard to find actual quality products.
Is there by any chance some Fedi channel equivalent to r/buyitforlife?
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Good idea, will be doing this in my german supermarket.
Fuck this nazi shit.
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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.
Such a revolutionary idea
Work at work crazy haha
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 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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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?
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love me some direct action.
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.
Sadly it’s more difficult to turn computers, websites, tech services, and operating systems upside down.
Challenge accepted!
(Warning: May not work on any version of Windows other than 93.)
This makes me feel not super great.... thanks....I hate it.....
I'm one of the many recent immigrants from reddit so I guess that's my start to alternatives.
I don't think I can walk away from many of the American tech services I use, but what I have done is reviewed what I use, change what I can and walk away from what I can. I've curtailed my optional spend on American companies, goods, and services. We can all do that at least.
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Can we do this in the USA with Canadian products so we know to buy them?
Maybe turn them around so they're all backwards. Might be better for odd-shapped containers
I'm liking it simply upside down, label still forward. It kind of burns into memory seeing the familiar label upside down. I don't recognize the backs of most grocery shelf products.
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Ah, I didn't see this post.
https://bsky.app/profile/saelliott.bsky.social/post/3ljxf6ou6l22a btw for the post on Bsky.
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Symbolizes well with the upside down US flag in distress.
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.
I love this.
I love the idea!
Oooh yeah that is a good idea
Love the idea!
Im from the USA: This is the only way to show MAGA. If they start losing money the corporations will dump them.
Have I mentioned how much I love my Canadian neighbors? Good job!
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 text does not work so screenshots instead? Im curious as I have a text bias.
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It's great because it will also affect people who don't care
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