Ways to not buy American

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I know the obvious brands that are fast food, fizzy drinks etc but I'm not sure about the overarching companies that are American owned and brands that I might miss.
It might be a small and solo protest but I'm determined.

Surly the aim of a boycott is to hurt or at least get the notice of the regime you are wanting to send a message to.

I'm old enough to remember the boycotts of South Africa.

Whole countries boycotted Olympic games, eventually 'sport' banned SA athletes from competing.

At the time one of the most visible protests was when Thatcher invited the SA President PW Botha for a visit and the hotels refused to have him stay.

I have no idea where Trump will be staying.

Boycotting products manufactured in the UK will hurt UK people who work in the factories.

Boycott things that are produced in the USA is more effective.

California wine - don't like it anyway so no hardship there
Florida Orange Juice
Motorbikes - plenty of other countries make them
Cruise lines, check who owns them before booking

I've just seen a YouTube clip. Haltback Bunkers a Norwegian fuel company has stopped refuelling US Navy ships.

The fund managers move their funds around according to their investments’ profits or losses.

BYD electric cars are infinitely better than Tesla's and cheaper too.

We can't cancel all American products, but going to try and cancel some. Reduce my American expenditure.

Yes, much better to get a car from China. There's the morally superior purchaser's choice.

As the UKs biggest physical exports (non services) are cars, gas turbines/aero engines, crude oil and pharmaceuticals I think we’ll be okay ;).

AFAIK, all of those, even cars (because we have brands and cars that people actually want to buy) are reasonably or very profitable. I mean, if the US wants to export more cars to Europe, perhaps it should make better cars ;)

Yes there are a lot of American brands unavoidable. But you can avoid at least some.
Stop buying from amazon and go to high street for buying books, hardware, clothing, and many more items.

Dont buy apple, buy samsung.
Video games, dont buy PlayStation, get Nintendo..
Dont go to starbucks, go to local cafe or European chains like Joe and the juice.
I cant believe starbucks has everything crap but people still go.

Pressure own governments to invest in IT, technology. Noone is asking to stop using instagram, YouTube, I know everyone is addicted but if China can make Tiktok, why cannot europe create a social media platform, conputing started thanks to efforts of Ada lovelace, Turing, why everyone is running to silicon valley to work, you know India and China have created their own silicon valleys, why cannot europe, UK do?
Stop buying American skin care andII make yo and buy cheaper european or Asian make up.
Don't buy california wine, when you have amazing wine in Europe, or get Argentinian, Australian, South African, NZ.

Amazon, apple, tesla are run by greedy, evil people, lets try to find some alternatives.

Canadians have created a list of alternative non american brands, products. Do atleast whatever you can do rather than saying not possible.
Can we atleast bring starbucks and amazon down if nothing for shit coffee, sugar laden drinks and horrible dense cakes, lets make pret great again? Every little helps 😁

LNG - Gas is significantly from the USA, so avoid using gas or anything cooked with or heated by gas!

Also add Kobo instead of Kindle (once your kindle stops working), the good thing about a koboSi is that you can easily connect to your library and borrow ebooks!

Amazon music/podcast/audible - spotify instead, we have it anyone so wasn't hard to delete the amazon apps.

Skincare - use south korean or japanese skincare, it is pretty great stuff.

So far so good on not using Amazon, given up Prime and have not bought anything this year so far. It has proven easier than expected. It just means a few more clicks buying directly from companies and manufacturers websites.

Pretty sure the majority of our gas comes from Europe!

I think Cambridge is considered to be the silicon valley of the UK although obviously much smaller. I think the problem is we need more investment and a framework where we not only innovate new ideas but also develop them into global British companies.

Our current Government are moving in the right direction but their AI policy is not fit for purpose. Providing favourable terms to AI Tech Bros with no protection for our thriving creative sectors is industrial suicide.

aws is one of amazons most profitable sections of its business, realistically it’s impossible to boycott them fully as it’s indirectly financing from just using so many websites and apps.

You're really going to struggle. Most electrical products that use microprocessors and or wifi contain products by Intel or Broadcom. Phones computers white goods EVERYTHING!

Absolutely agree - we should at least do something to reduce purchase of American goods. It may be a good idea to target those companies that have ditched DEI first or perhaps those that don't pay tax in UK/Europe. And our European governments should have encouraged less reliance on one country with regard to tech. Let's hope it's not too late!

Asda is not owned by Walmart…

I'm doing my bit. The food isn't anything I'd eat anyway so no changes needed, ditto clothing. I'm changing my travel plans which included a trip to Boston later this year and won't be renewing Amazon Prime, will switch from Apple to Samsung next year. I'm a big beauty product buyer so will be ditching any US goods. I'm sure the orange man won't notice but hey-ho!

I’m cutting down gradually by using Argos and John Lewis instead of Amazon and avoiding American goods when I do buy. Using DEI as a guide and focusing on reducing goods or tech from companies (eg McDonalds, Google) that have ditched that policy. Apple still hanging out against ditching it. Using Bing for now instead of Google.

I'm going to avoid what I can. Of course its impossible to give it all up given how intertwined the various technologies are etc.. but that's no reason to not bother at all.
Just amended my weekly shop to remove American brands - there's not much there to swap tbh but I've dropped Pepsi and Heinz. I'm going to try to buy much less from Amazon - I might not be able to stop completely but I'm going to do what I can.

I'm going to start by coming off X (twitter) as it's gone to 💩 with Musk popping up with right wing nonsense and you can't even block him 🙄!!

Also thinking twice about many of the US Brands - if we all do this it might not do much but will make me feel a smidge better about the horrendous last few days!! The Americans I know including family are HORRIFIED and not support Trumps actions at all

If you ski in Canada, don't go to Whistler as it is run by Vail resorts, a big us corporate. Try a smaller Canadian run mountain.

Alot of UK gas comes from USA fracking so best turn off your heating and hot water too.

Gotta do what you can!

Reducing purchase of those brands will help. Even a 0.15% drop in profits will make investors think twice. Also we need to know which of those American brands manufacture here and pay our taxes.

Buying as local as possible, and from as many small shops / brands as possible is a win on so many levels not just the fact that it allows you to go some way in avoiding US firms.

This thread makes me think we really need a decent, reasonably priced British electric car!

Which are the best non-US supermarkets? I tend towards Sainsbury's and Asian supermarkets.

No one would miss US food really.

There are more countries in the world than America and China!

Japanese, German, Korean cars...for example