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
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.
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?
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 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.
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'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.
In the appearance settings (I think the first point, I just don't know what it's called in English) you can change it from top + sidebar style to just tiles on top, resembling Microsoft office's user interface. Makes it easier to transition.
Sadly, graphene doesn't support many banking apps, which makes for a shitty user experience. Liked everything else about it but not being able to access muh money on the go was a dealbreaker for me.
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.
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.
One reason could be that it makes the post start with three implicit upvotes because you know there are at least three other people who like this idea.
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.
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 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.
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.
And now Jeremy has to stay an hour after close to face the shelves because his asshole manager won't let him leave until the shelves are in perfect order.
I appreciate the sentiment, but this is just possibly ruining somebody's night that just wanted to clock out and meet up with their friends.
Maybe someone passionate about this movement could distribute rolls of tiny US flag stickers to consumers so they could mark offending products, though poor Jeremy would still possibly be tasked with scraping them off.
I don't know. Jeremy needs a better job but there aren't any.
FWIW I worked in a supermarket. Go nuts, nobody cares. My asshole manager would make me keep moving everything anyways, and I later learned this was to prevent customers from easily finding the things they wanted.
Wasting company time hurt the company, not me. I didn't mind collecting shopping carts either. My friends weren't waiting for me to get off work because the shifts were irregular anyways.
I didn't even care about stuff that risked the store shutting down, because nobody intends to work at a grocery store for very long. Nothing hurt my pay because it was already minimum wage. Go ahead and steal, I sure wasn't paid to care.
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!!
You monster !
I only do that with raw chicken, and I leave it on top of fresh vegetables so people can see it.
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
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.
Sorry, I was joking. I don't actually think fruit paint ball is safe or productive.
At least it is not a task the bosses can automate. Some job security there.
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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Just buy imported products… Ah, shit.
Good idea, will be doing this in my german supermarket.
Fuck this nazi shit.
Darf ich wagen, Sie zu fragen, zu welchem Supermarkt Sie gehen?
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...
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.
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
It's for a purpose, and it's not too much of a pita.
love me some direct action.
I'm waiting to see this done with Teslas.
Whistling Diesel beat everyone to it years ago
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.
Challenge accepted!
(Warning: May not work on any version of Windows other than 93.)
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/31/welcome-to-the-year-of-the-diagonal-linux-desktop/
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.
Same here. I'm cutting things out and slowly switching to alternatives where I can.
Individually dropping these products and services won't do much in isolation but as we're seeing with Tesla, there is power as a group.
Next on my list is the Google suite. I use docs and sheets a ton for Uni work and home/hobby stuff.
LaTeX + LibreOffice is my Uni work setup
Just downloaded Libre, will take a look at LaTeX as well. Cheers
Awesome.
In the appearance settings (I think the first point, I just don't know what it's called in English) you can change it from top + sidebar style to just tiles on top, resembling Microsoft office's user interface. Makes it easier to transition.
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, although I try to use my phone whenever I can (which still uses SWIFT, I guess)
Graphene?
That's the idea! Although I also found one other OS that looks cool, but the name escapes me rn.
Have you made the jump?
Not yet, though I suspect I will when I need to update my phone (you need a pixel for Graphene), but there’s also lineage os
Sadly, graphene doesn't support many banking apps, which makes for a shitty user experience. Liked everything else about it but not being able to access muh money on the go was a dealbreaker for me.
You do not have to be a Registered Nurse for this.
I do not have to be a registered nurse to change the Operative System on my phone? Well, that'd be weird!
Harder, yes. But with some know-how, it's entirely doable: https://blog.dustinbarnett.com/2013/11/upside-down-ternet-raspberry-pi-edition.html
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.
Both
Only problem is, because of our languages laws, the back side is just the same label but in the other language.
Fine, we'll just make our products spherical.
Lol
So they roll upside down by themselves?
There is no up or down with spheres. Checkmate Canadians!
How is the label printed?
Ps: there is no up or down for cubes or prisms either, it's all about the label.
Yes, I'm fun at parties.
Symmetrical circular qr codes placed symmetrically of course 🫠
I meant that the placement of the circles would be symmetrical with respect to each other.
Symbolizes well with the upside down US flag in distress.
Ah, I didn't see this post.
https://bsky.app/profile/saelliott.bsky.social/post/3ljxf6ou6l22a btw for the post on Bsky.
Thanks!
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!
One reason could be that it makes the post start with three implicit upvotes because you know there are at least three other people who like this idea.
It's great because it will also affect people who don't care
Clever. I approve.
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.
Many larger places have replaced the paper tag with an eink display these days, it's actually hard to notice it's not paper unless you look closely
Been doing it for nearly a month already! It helps a lot!
Stores should have stickers indicating if a product is local and/or made in EU
Keep doing it Canadians
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
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
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
Same here. Those 8 hours were gone anyways, made no difference to me.
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.
They used to, proudly. But that was months ago.
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.
Write your regultors, ask them to make the country of orientation a mandatory labeling requirement. Make it big and obvious.
Many of my local stores are using red maple leafs and changing the barcode names to indicate Canadian made products.
That's friggin awesome.
I am trying to buy local as much as possible where I live.
I'm definitely running with this idea :-)
And now Jeremy has to stay an hour after close to face the shelves because his asshole manager won't let him leave until the shelves are in perfect order.
I appreciate the sentiment, but this is just possibly ruining somebody's night that just wanted to clock out and meet up with their friends.
Maybe someone passionate about this movement could distribute rolls of tiny US flag stickers to consumers so they could mark offending products, though poor Jeremy would still possibly be tasked with scraping them off.
I don't know. Jeremy needs a better job but there aren't any.
FWIW I worked in a supermarket. Go nuts, nobody cares. My asshole manager would make me keep moving everything anyways, and I later learned this was to prevent customers from easily finding the things they wanted.
Wasting company time hurt the company, not me. I didn't mind collecting shopping carts either. My friends weren't waiting for me to get off work because the shifts were irregular anyways.
I didn't even care about stuff that risked the store shutting down, because nobody intends to work at a grocery store for very long. Nothing hurt my pay because it was already minimum wage. Go ahead and steal, I sure wasn't paid to care.
Well at least he will get paid for extra time right?
...
Right?
Yep. And probably get bitched at for going over 39.9 hours (or is that just a US thing?)