Walkers crisps

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The company is American-owned (originally British). I'm therefore not buying them any more.

…just crisps? You’re going to run out of things pretty sharpish if you trace the parent companies back.

PepsiCo own a lot of brands.

As do Mars, Coca Cola, Heinz, Proctor & Gamble.

Can’t shop in Asda or Morrisons. Or Boots. Or Waterstones. Can’t use Sky, it’s owned by Comcast.

Mastercard and Visa are American - so what do you do about your credit and debit cards? Same goes for Amazon and PayPal. Can’t use Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Apple, Disney…

Yup. And drugs.

To be fair, I could do without a lot, but beans means Heinz. Couldn't survive without them.

I doubt you not buying your weekly packet of cheese and onion will make a difference.

You can't boycott everyone. If we don't want to buy anything from America, we have to start making things again. We're a service economy with the odd bit of food production here and there. We're not the powerhouse we once were because we decided to sell everything off. I mean heck, some of our civil service buildings are owned by the Saudis; we rent them back.

Surely Walkers have a UK business separate from the US business? If so, it’s very unlikely to have anything to do with the other country, except at a very top line level.

I’d go the other way - fully support the UK arms of US owned businesses to make the US ones look really bad and the UK ones the most viable/strong.

I work for a company that is ultimately owned by an American company. Until this thread, I’ve never once in the 22 years I’ve been there considered it an American firm - I work for the UK company, our targets are based on UK sales, we roll up to a European level and have some European targets too, but ultimately we all focus ok the UK. I assume at some point our numbers roll up to America though.

So all the other American companies are perfectly fine just this one you habe a problem with?

Your name fits.

What a daft response. Are you American?

No great loss. They're crap.

Why would i be American?

I guess you're also going to have to stop filling your car with petrol too because most of the petrol stations are US owned.

Golden wonder are my favorite anyway

and every little helps - where you have the ability and choice to avoid American / do so. Profits are in the small
percentages , so small percentage change matters

This is a good site to help with boycotting https://www.bankrupttrump.org/
Every little helps.

It's about who the stakeholders are - they are the ones who benefit from the profits that are not reinvested into the business. It's entirely possible that running costs are covered in the UK but profits go back to America.

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I found that just googling for the British equivalent for a US product produces good results (though need to check for accuracy for any one product). I got this for Cesar dog food

Forthglade: A popular, high-quality, Devon-made option known for natural, wet, and dry food (grain-free options available).
Natures Menu (Country Hunter): A leading manufacturer in Norfolk producing high-meat content, nutritious wet foods and raw options.
Naturediet: A family-run company based in the UK, offering nutritious, affordable wet food (trays) made with British ingredients.
Scrumbles: A UK-based brand using high-quality, natural ingredients for gentle digestion.
Butternut Box: A personalized, subscription-based service offering freshly prepared, cooked food made in the UK.
Naturo: A quality wet food brand (trays and cans) that offers grain-free and sensitive skin options.
Wolfworthy: An excellent dry food alternative, described as "raw-like" in nutrition, and made in the UK.
These alternatives are generally recognized for having better, natural ingredients compared to standard commercial brands, focusing on higher protein content and fewer fillers.

Asda is now British-owned https://www.innovatorinternational.com/community/news/billionairebrothers/

Sure. But it will be UK employees that lose their jobs if we start boycotting those businesses. The company I work for would be thousands if not tens of thousands at risk.

A lot of the time with these big businesses they are run on their own so maybe something gets paid back to the head company, but a lot the profits go back into that countries business. Where are the products made - many are in the Uk or Europe.

Look as well though at privately owned vs shareholders as I suspect that would make a difference (eg I saw Mars on a list from someone earlier and they are family owned without outside shareholders to be accountable to - the OP mentioned Cesar dog food which I believe is made by them).

I’d also consider what brands you are happy to disappear from UK shelves for good if people start protest shopping en-masse. I know I’d be gutted if Pepsi Mac went for example.

The Issa brothers. They asset-stripped ASDA and bought up the fuel stations (their line of business is focused on fuel stations). Do you have any idea how much debt ASDA has been saddled with since they bought it? The Issa brothers sold ASDA off to a private equity firm once they were done gutting it and it's now in deep, deep trouble.

If some businesses fail then others will grow because people don’t stop eating because they stop using a specific store - so the jobs will move around rather than be lost totally

but yes economic war hurts , the alternative of bomb war or appeasement however are worse

Civil service buildings owned by the Saudis and rented back by us? If I ever heard an example of the stupidity of many politicians, this is it.