Is there a list somewhere of commonly found American products in European supermarket so that I can definitely not do a bit of this..?
I lose track of all the daughter companies and such that one should watch out for.
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Here is a list that may be helpful
https://files.catbox.moe/jtmcb5.pdf
And if you were not totally against using AI, then you could load that list to Mistral, take a pic and identify things quickly. As per the photo.
Thanks! I find the method interesting. Are the results mostly accurate in your experience?
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We should do that to US foods in the US.
We should do that to US ~~foods~~ flags in the US.
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Is there actually any evidence of this happening? Isn't this just a photo of a couple items upside down in a shop?
The more people know about this, the møte they can do these things themselves
Like, you and I could do this to our local shop for example, although, I'd probably talk with the workers there first haha. If the workers are going to keep flipping them back then there won't really be too much point
I haven't seen anything like that in any store or supermarket here in Spain. Nor even hear about this until now. So I say it's just a couple off items upside-down in a shop.
You can be the change.
Firsthand accounts of my friend in Canada who I speak to on discord on the daily
I asked my friend and in Canada people are doing this as well as other more aggressive tactics to flag American products.
Based
On what
Can we start a movement for this? Who's in?
INB4 American companies redesign their packaging.
That shape would arguably be an even clearer indicator of american wares lmao
I wouldn't do it because I just don't feel like being that akward (it's already akward for me to be in a store).
But I do appreciate it, I do mostly buy store brand products so don't expect i'll be contributing much to the US brands.