A growing consumer push to buy Canadian and boycott US products is \u2060reshaping supermarket shelves in Canada, forcing grocers to improve country-of-origin labelling and secure new sources of supply.<\/p>\n
In Ontario, the president of independent grocer Vince\u2019s Market, Giancarlo Trimarchi, turned to social media to show customers that most produce on the shelves of his stores is Canadian after receiving angry emails and comments about the grocer stocking US produce.<\/p>\n
A bitter trade war between the United States and Canada has made consumers more conscious of where their dollars go.<\/p>\n
\u201cBuy Canadian\u201d movements started last year after US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian goods. They have intensified in recent weeks after \u200ctrade talks broke down and Trump signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a lot more aggressive this time around than last year,\u201d Trimarchi said in an interview.<\/p>\n
Trump told reporters in Dublin on Saturday that Canada is eager to reach a trade deal with the US and that an agreement could come \u201cfairly soon\u201d, while repeating his complaints that Canada has treated US farmers unfairly and should remove tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A growing consumer push to buy Canadian and boycott US products is \u2060reshaping supermarket shelves in Canada, forcing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,941,357955,103,357958,12,357960,39716,22586,357959,5871,26,3,2432,2433,3662,21,19,22,20,357956,25,24,357957],"class_list":["post-845971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-brazil","tag-buy-canadian","tag-canada","tag-canadian-federation-of-independent-grocers","tag-donald-trump","tag-greater-toronto-area","tag-honduras","tag-lake-ontario","tag-loblaw-cos","tag-metro","tag-mexico","tag-news","tag-ontario","tag-quebec","tag-spain","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-university-of-guelph","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vinces-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}