6mo ago

Spain turning Non EU products upside down on shelves in shops as a form of boycott

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Can't wait to see some Teslas upside down at the dealership
- But first set it on fire to get rid of the excess weight.
  
  No need they will do that themselfs.

People are doing the same in Canada with US products.
- American here, good.
  The rest of the world needs to start competing with the US instead of suckling its teat.
  Everyone will be better off for it except for the conmen taking America for a ride right now.

“that’s illegal”
— Donald

We should do that to US foods in the US.
- We should do that to US ~~foods~~ flags in the US.
- Haha, Don't.
  
  Nah. Americans should stop putting unnecessary shit in their food.
  Even our grocery store bread is considered cake because of how much sugar we put in it. It's fucking stupid.

I could tell this was Lidl just from the font on the prices.
If I want to boycott American, buying Lidl and Aldi own brands is an easy way to do this, yes? I'm doing this by default because I have an easily navigatable Lidl that I can walk to.
- I am American and I am doing all my grocery shopping either at Aldi or from farmer markets now. Fuck Musk, fuck Trump, and fuck the US for falling to fascist oligarchy.
  Glory to Ukraine. Glory to Democracy
  
  Hear hear!
- Lidls owner Schwarz is heavily invested in an Israeli "cybersecurity" start-up run by a former Mossad director. As always with Israeli "cybersecurity" that embraces "former" ties to intelligence, you should expect ongoing ties to Israeli and US intelligence agencies.
  https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3923098,00.html
  These are the kind of people that helped get Trump elected.
  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-02-15/ty-article-magazine/.premium/cambridge-analyticas-israeli-black-ops-team-exposed-at-last/00000186-4b78-da04-a186-7bfa41fe0000
  https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-jd-vance-peter-thiel-founded-company-helps-israel-kill-lists-palestinians-gaza
  
  One thing at a time. Lidl isn't necessarily in question here, it's the boycott intention. We do the same thing boycotting in Israeli products too.
  
  You are pretending these people oppose genocide….the whole point of this is motivated by some weird racial purity concept
- Yes it is
- Make sure it is Aldi Sud not Aldi Nord though

A single random picture isn't actual evidence of this happening at all.
- I saw this in a Canadian article as well.
  People check to see if they're American and then turn them upside down so the next person doesn't have to look it up. Not so much a protest as a warning to others who care.
  
  I don’t believe this. The average Canadian/Eurooean is not aware of associated situation.
  Edit: ok so the Canadians seem to have a proper movement going.
  With the average European however I stand my ground, most are not aware or gaf
- its still fun thing to see :)

Is there actually any evidence of this happening? Isn't this just a photo of a couple items upside down in a shop?
- 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.
- https://nowtoronto.com/news/canadians-are-starting-this-new-trend-to-protest-u-s-products-at-grocery-stores/
- I asked my friend and in Canada people are doing this as well as other more aggressive tactics to flag American products.
- 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
- Firsthand accounts of my friend in Canada who I speak to on discord on the daily

Consider doing this in my supermarket.
- As an American I implore you to start.
  People are telling me to boycott Tesla and I'm over here like "I wasn't about to buy a $65k vehicle spontaneously but I guess won't now anyways."
  
  My broke ass:
  I won’t buy a Tesla this year. In fact, I won’t buy TEN Teslas.
  
  Direct action time
  
  I already skipped two/three products yesterday, one only after scanning it deliberately to find out whether I should avoid it.
  Skipped products: Milka spread (Mondelez) and Schweppes. Bought European instead.

All non eu products? Or jus american products

INB4 American companies redesign their packaging.
- That shape would arguably be an even clearer indicator of american wares lmao

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.
- minus Nestle (sadly) and Unilever
  
  This picture is going through the net for so long, still German news are trying to convince its readers that there aren't many American products on European supermarket shelves.
  
  This image alone proves that governments only care about monopolies in writing 😂
  Edit: Aw fuck, Ms Vickies is Canadian but owned by Pepsi? Fml. So in the end, it's not really Canadian. We can't have anything good...
  
  Nestlé doesn't need to be American for you to boycott it though.
  
  TIL Garnier is affiliated with Nestlé. And here I thought I found good vegan bleach to dye my hair. Smh my head
  
  Minus Unilever as well.
- 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?

all non-EU or just made usa?
- All, EU+non-EU+US, I think, it's owned by the US companies.

Based
- On what

Meanwhile Spain still provides weapons to Israel.
- https://www.jpost.com/international/article-825881
  Latest official statement from Spain as of October says they HALTED shipments of arms to Israel
  the newest news on it would be this (not even sure about source on this one as its presstv.ir?) https://www.presstv.ir/doc/Detail/2025/02/20/743185/Israel-Spain-US-Israel-
  where the US is sending Arms through their Military Bases in Spain to Israel with condemnation from the Spanish government as they cant control what goes on in US Military bases.
  the Spanish Foreign Ministry said that officials “[have] not authorized any transit through Spanish airports of defense material destined for Israel,” adding that “no arms sales operations to Israel have been authorized either.”
  Shipments through American military bases in Spain of military materials, which may be used in the commission of international crimes, are harder to detect,” Spanish lawmaker Enrique Santiago back then said.
  When you come with some inflammatory statement the least you can do is TRY to back it up with something... oh wait.. I see the instance now..
  
  There has been a whole scandal about this, Spain has been sending arms to Israel while the gov says they're not. In fact this scandal has happened like 3 times already, Pedro sanchez says theyre stopping the trades and theyre caught doing it later, 3 times already. This one is the most recent one, this was reported in Spanish and since it has happened multiple times, i get why it wasn't covered in English media.
  https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/60-000-piezas-armamento-han-salido-aviones-espana-israel-ruta-continua-2025_1_12065190.html
  Straight out of Zaragoza airport, not from a US military base.
- What, double standards and hypocrisy from the EU politicians? And I wonder who they're gonig to buy those weapons from.
  
  Yea, they be "boycotting" US products while literally hosting US military bases in their countries.
- 🍉 = 🚄?

I only like my capitalism when it's homegrown
- My chauvinism is better than yours.

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.

Where’s the picture.
- It was slow internet but only this one post wasn’t showing up. As soon as I got home things appeared

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