Some Canadian retailers no longer play in imports of us. They went to simply label the products manufactured in Canada to distinguish American manufacturing products with a “T” warning label for “prices”.
Loblaw Companies Ltd., which operates around 2,400 stores across Canada, announced On March 10, he planned to deploy the “T” label on goods imported by the United States which may have been subject to a price increase in prices. As the warning labels were slowly deployed in the last month, buyers noticed it and buy accordingly.
A LEGER of April 17 survey revealed that 76% of Canadians have increased their purchases of locally produced and originally made in recent weeks, representing the largest number of respondents who have been looking to buy Canadian products since the market research company began to follow the behavior in mid-February.
The shelf labels in a supermarket in St. John’s, Canada, show a maple leaf and the price, indicating the items manufactured or produced in the country. VCG / VCG via getty images
Business Insider previously reported that Canadians had seen an increase in patriotism since President Donald Trump, in mid -March, made comments on the creation of the 158 -year -old nation on the 51st American state – and that patriotism is reflected in the alley of the grocery store.
“All grocery stores now have Canadian and American labeled products – and Canadian products have always disappeared,” Buyer based in Vancouver, Isabella Zavaris, told Bi.
It is not only a preference for Canadian manufacturing goods; It is an active avoidance of American imports, said Zavaris. And preference is not to save money-completely the opposite: “Everyone I know has local shopping despite its price,” she added.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said that small grocery stores, in particular, see price increases related to prices exchanged between the United States and Canada, and the country’s consumer price index increased by 2.3% from one year to the next in March, following an increase of 2.6% in February.
The prices of American imports have skyrocketed – 100 ml of tropicana orange juice are listed for $ 13.99 in Metro stores, another Canadian channel – but even locally manufactured goods have seen increases, reported the point of sale.
The United States and its neighbor in the North have been locked up in an increasing commercial dispute over Trump’s aggressive commercial strategy, which, on March 13, has levied 25% tariffs from many Canadian consumer goods and 10% on imports from energy products from Canada.
Canada has announced 25% counter-triggers on American products in response.
The representatives of Loblaw and Metro did not immediately respond to requests for comments from Business Insider.
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