Trying to not buy anything American!

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This is a personal choice. I’m trying to not buy anything imported from American. Is anyone else doing the same? Any ideas?

What are people planning to do about their investments? Pension funds can have a lot of exposure to US companies.

I thought Method was American

And Ecover - it’s SC Johnson which is American.

I will need a good alternative as use Ecover everything .

Fellow boycotter here. Couldn’t make mind up between Ninja and Tefal air fryer. DH looked them both up, SharkNinja HQ’d in US, Tefal in France. Decision made.

Etsy is american and folksy is i think uk

Alternative for kindle.books? The only thing I've bought on amazon I years i think

Personally I find the basis of this counterproductive. We are so reliant on US origin or owned stuff that you'd really need to go off the grid to fully purge and avoid it.
A number of fast food chains etc are franchises so it's damaging our own more than it'll damage the company themselves.

But to add on, the fact so much are conglomerates now, there is so much sharing of parts etc.

Car wise you'll need to also avoid:
Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Citreon, Ds, Fiat, Lancia, Maserati, Peugeot and Vauxhall.

All owned by Stellantis NV, an Italian-American multinational company formed through the merge of PSA and Fiat Chrysler.
They'll all share parts, tech etc and will be reliant on US origin parts to go into it's manufacture.

Safest bets car wise would be far east: Toyota, Hyundai, Subaru etc

The American government is trying its best to destroy economies across the world. We need to do as much as possible to move away from our dependence on them. Every bit helps.

Following with interest. I live within a couple of miles of one of trumps hotels, which hosts a lot of events and is a big place around here for Xmas parties etc, and I would never go. But it’s not like I was going there to start with! DH and I very nearly booked it for our wedding before he owned it and I’m so fucking grateful we changed our mind.

While I’ll do my best to avoid as much US products as possible I hope something has changed by the time my phone is due an upgrade, I’ll never switch from an iPhone - I have my principals but only to a point.

Had no idea Boots were American owned. Unfortunately they’re my only option locally for a pharmacy.

Costa Coffee is no longer British. Coca-Cola bought them out from Whitbread

Coca Cola bought it out.

A good rule of thumb is to try to buy local and independent if possible. It also supports buying British and local businesses so it’s a win-win.

My brother said there’s shelves full of American products in Canada as no one is buying them. I think, if I didn’t but American is probably have to not buy Chinese either and I’m not sure my peri menopausal brain can consistently remember what I can and can’t buy. I admire other people’s commitment though.

So fucking depressing seeing how many British brands have been bought out by US owners and venture capitalists.

I only use Amazon for Kindle and last minute charging cables etc. I've spent pennies really over the last 3 or 4 years. Tech is difficult to avoid but I'm not a massive consumer, upgrade rarely.

Don't use the junk food chains either.

Bigger one for me is how much make-up is US brands. Would have said I could switch to No 7 but can't even do that ☹️

Keep looking at cars as I drive around. Vast majority in the UK are German and Japanese/Korean. Rarely even see Ford's that much these days.

L’Oreal is French.

Buy second hand - it’s good for the environment, and it doesn’t give money to big American corporations as buying new would.

Nope, it's a subsidiary of Coke.

Pretty sure I live further up the coast from you, we too now avoid the hotel - somewhere we would love to use but just can’t. I hate that it is a source of jobs for so many locals though and fear for them.
DH just hopes he sells it so the Open returns and he can golf there with a clear conscience.

We use Amazon a lot but are going to cancel Prime and stop buying there for the foreseeable future.

We’ve stopped buying from Amazon a few weeks ago (this is no small thing as we spend 1000s on Amazon every year) and anything we know is Coca Cola, Pepsi or of their ilk owned. Our local supermarket is now stocking a very local drink manufacturer‘s drink at the same price, only glass bottles and they are flying off the shelves.

If we know something is US it doesn’t get bought. Every little helps.
They want to be isolationist. The rest of the world in turn needs to isolate them. We’ve used apple for years. We have as a family only MacBooks, iPads and iPhones. This will be a struggle in the future but my DH can reengineer Huawei and input a new Linux operating system which will do the job so he is going to do that when the time comes. He is quite heartbroken about it all. If we have to choose between the rock and a hard place I’d pick China every time.

They don’t actually want to be isolationist though do they. They want Americans to only buy American but they want the rest of the world to also mainly buy American and invest in America. They are using their power to bully people into doing this. The smaller economies will probably cave since they are too vulnerable so it is then down to individuals to make a difference with their buying choices.

One thing that is easily done is switching away from Asda and Morrisons since they are both US owned. That in itself will make a difference even if you don’t switch many brands

I can't give up Amazon. No idea what brands are American. Can anyone give a list.

We're being super frugal for the forseeable. We don't need any big items and we are doing Aldi for food shops anyway - not keen on a lot of American things as they taste of chemicals to me!

I don't know anyone who would buy a Tesla these days and anyone who usually went to Disney is going somewhere else this year. That Dutch theme park, Eftling or something, seems to be popular with under 12s. Also Port Aventura. I don't think kids these days are as into American films anyway? Maybe Pixar.

There are several lists on this thread.

Sorry what does it mean if it has UK after? Is that OK? Confused.

Pret is British and the coffee is nicer. If you don’t have a local Pret, perhaps support an independent instead. And I know it’s difficult if you need an emergency coffee at a motorway services, for instance but for me it’s about making the non American choice when I have a choice. Sometimes, I will have to buy American when I have no choice.

I’m not tech savvy enough to start reprogramming my devices so that they use a non American version of Microsoft. So I’ll just have to do what I can, which is not buying American food, drink, clothing for now. Not eating at American restaurants, not shopping at US owned chains / supermarkets. And until a non American version of WhatsApp is widely embraced, I’ll still have to use Meta. I don’t use FB or Insta (Meta) but I use LinkedIn (Microsoft) for work and can’t see an alternative.

FYI I found out today that Spotify is Swedish, so I can carry on with that. Duolingo is US owned though, so if anyone can recommend a good non US alternative, I’ll switch.

Anyine know what pharmaceuticals are American and what alternatives there are? I’m thinking off the shelf and over the counter stuff that are widely used, anti histamines for example. In terms of prescription stuff, then I don’t think we get much say but we can always all say to our GP that we’d prefer a non American product where possible.