Movement to get Russian Products taken off the shelves of supermarkets

[Mummytotwonow]

There was a heartbreaking call to LBC yesterday from a Ukrainian and one of the things they said that the British public can do to help is put pressure on supermarkets in the UK to remove Russian products off of their shelves. Supermarkets in other countries in the EU are currently doing this. I have made contact with some supermarkets already but please if you are able to also do the same either by Twitter or phone as the more people that put pressure on this will help. It’s only a drop in the ocean but any small acts of help go along way.

Russian oligarch owned companies….maybe.

Russian products. No.

@JustFrustrated

Disagree.

This can turn very easily into hating all Russians.

This isn't Russia's war. This is Putin's.

100% agree with this

@GaiusHelenMohiam

My company has already stopped stocking Smirnoff.

No joke. I was told yesterday by the owner. I did laugh and say, well that’ll show em. Bonkers.

It’s just virtue signalling bollocks.

We’re moving to Ketel One which is twice the selling price…

The nuclear weapons he was waving about are Russian. The soldiers he’s invading Ukraine with are Russian. The bombs falling on apartment blocks are Russian.

You can’t wash your hands of it and pretend it’s just one man. It’s 140million people saying ‘it’s nothing to do with me’. It’s oligarchs propping him up financially. It’s the military carrying out his orders.

I'd sooner see all estate agents refuse to sell or market any property owned by Russians.

@Ncwinc

The nuclear weapons he was waving about are Russian. The soldiers he’s invading Ukraine with are Russian. The bombs falling on apartment blocks are Russian.

You can’t wash your hands of it and pretend it’s just one man. It’s 140million people saying ‘it’s nothing to do with me’. It’s oligarchs propping him up financially. It’s the military carrying out his orders.

Russians including old women and children are being arrested and prisoned for protesting. Men as young are 19 conscripted to fight, or face being shot. They are being fed lies about what is happening. They are victims of Putins madness too!

i have only really seen russian vodka in supermarkets,.and not any other products..

Our large company (non food) announced yesterday that we will no longer be importing Russian or Belarusian products

Not sure what's on my department from Russia. Some stock during covid and Suez Canal issue was airfreighted in from Russia so possibly that

I saw the children being arrested.

I thought of the utter bravery of Ukrainians, standing in front of tanks and facing down Russian soldiers.

In Russia it’s left to the grandmothers and children to face up to Putin.

@Ncwinc

I saw the children being arrested.

I thought of the utter bravery of Ukrainians, standing in front of tanks and facing down Russian soldiers.

In Russia it’s left to the grandmothers and children to face up to Putin.

Whilst their sons get forced to go to war to bomb those brave Ukrainians. Young men that would be in college here, not knowing where they are going, just made to do the bidding of a madman at the barrel of his gun.

It's all a bloody mess, feel so impotent, angry, upset, stupid. All I can do is donate.

There are very few Russian manufactured or owned products in supermarkets. It's virtue signalling not helping. Not placing further orders is far better than wasting things in shops

"There was a heartbreaking call to LBC yesterday from a Ukrainian and one of the things they said that the British public can do to help is put pressure on supermarkets in the UK to remove Russian products off of their shelves."

How, exactly, does it 'help'? Are the tanks' ability to fire dependant on the weight of supermarket shelves? I know that sounds flippant but I'm actually seriously asking - how does it help? Because I really cannot see it making a rat's arse of difference to the invasion. I really cannot see even that it would comfort the Ukrainians. 'Ah, we may be huddled in our cold basement whilst the shelling continues overhead, but it's so good to know the British supermarkets are no longer selling !'

I don't even know what is meant by 'Russian products'. Others have already pointed out that Russia isa big grain exporter, should we stop buying bread? Or would that actually affect you, Mummytotwonow, so no? Or, there's a section in my local Sainsbury's for world food, where there are unfamiliar products from many countries. I presume these items are bought by the expats of said countries represented on those shelves, in the same way that I would search out Tunnocks and Irn Bru when I first moved to England. Is that what you want, that Russian expats should be unable to have the occasional taste of home? Again, how does that help? Do you see expats as some sort of enemy?

I honestly find this idea completely bewildering. Who does it help? Who does it punish (not Putin, that's for sure). Step away from the pitchforks FFS.

@Mummytotwonow

If you take a look at Twitter there is already a lot of requests and this is a response from Waitrose supermarkets that I have just seen so that's just one supermarket that is monitoring/reviewing.

I have absolutely nothing against Russian people. This is to do with the war. The campaign was highlighted by a Ukrainian who was asking for the UK to support with putting pressure on Uk supermarkets.

Yes, they've said if there's official sanctions on Russian products then they'll look at it. Until then, read the description and see where an item was produced, if in Russia, and you feel so morally opposed to buying it, then don't buy it.

We should restrict our boycotts to the companies run by Russian oligarchs who support Putin and hit them hard. Also companies run by Conservative MPs who have accepted their money. Ordinary Russians who have nothing to do with Putin should be left alone, they’re suffering so much already.

Boycotting Russian goods mean we source it from elsewhere

A bit of short term pain for long term gain!

We don't do business with Russia. It's a business move. And will benefit another country who can provide us with the same items Russia used to

@sweetgingercat

We should restrict our boycotts to the companies run by Russian oligarchs who support Putin and hit them hard. Also companies run by Conservative MPs who have accepted their money. Ordinary Russians who have nothing to do with Putin should be left alone, they’re suffering so much already.

Is there a list and I agree

What you all going to do if it transpires an ogliarch has a finger in Tescos/Waitrose pie?

@TellMeMoreHellebore

What you all going to do if it transpires an ogliarch has a finger in Tescos/Waitrose pie?

Shop at Ocado, Tesco is awful anyway. Being facetious btw

Funds are the better targets. If you’re looking at the U.K. and Russia, money is what we trade - investments.

Let's just burn the whole world down and be done with it.

Ukrainians aren't the only citizens in the world whose country is being attacked or are at war. I feel sympathetic to innocent citizens but this focus on helping them (and only them it seems) is just suspicious.

It was not too long ago, Ukraine (the whole country) was being shamed for the appalling, racist way their football fans were behaving towards black footballers. There were even certain boycotts suggested then. Now Ukraine is in our good books and we must boycott Russian goods; and for what reason? I can't get my head around it. Gung ho, hysterical and useless actions.

Ukraine produces a whole load of wheat. if the war carries on into spring planting then this years harvest is lost.

@HumunaHey

Let's just burn the whole world down and be done with it.

Ukrainians aren't the only citizens in the world whose country is being attacked or are at war. I feel sympathetic to innocent citizens but this focus on helping them (and only them it seems) is just suspicious.

It was not too long ago, Ukraine (the whole country) was being shamed for the appalling, racist way their football fans were behaving towards black footballers. There were even certain boycotts suggested then. Now Ukraine is in our good books and we must boycott Russian goods; and for what reason? I can't get my head around it. Gung ho, hysterical and useless actions.

I think it's more that the Ukraine is the 2nd largest country in Europe, and if Putin takes it, who is next to be invaded? Do you honestly think he will stop there? Mind not to worry, we can all turn away and let genocide happen and the invasion of Europe keep going.

In the country I live they’ve removed russian vodka from the shelves. I think it’s a good idea. Yes, it is Putin’s war but the Russian people need to turn against him and it needs to happen very soon.