Canadian grocery stores are sidelining US products -- and American businesses are feeling the pinch

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Source: Business Insider

Canadian grocery stores are sidelining US products — and American businesses are feeling the pinch

Katherine Li
Fri, March 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM EST 4 min read

• Canadian customers are telling US businesses they will stop buying US products.
• Grocery chains in Canada are sidelining American products and expecting their sales to drop.
• The boycott, in addition to retaliatory tariffs, could have an impact on the US agricultural industry.

Canadian businesses large and small have been turning down American products, starting with non-essentials like alcohol, and spreading toward a wider variety of food products that economic experts say could hit different levels of the agriculture supply chain.

"Basically, overnight, everything changed, maybe irreparably," said Alisa Gorokhova, a resident of Quebec, as she recalled the morning after the tariff announcements came for the first time. "There's suddenly 'made in Canada' labels on things and American booze is gone from the shelves."

Gorokhova said she now sees shoppers actively checking where everything is made, taking the task of boycotting US products seriously.

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