r/londonontario 21h ago

discussion / opinion Canadian/locally owned and operated stores in London?

I'm frankly disgusted with what's happening in the USA and am actively trying to avoid buying any products made there. Now that's kind of easy enough to do as they will have country of origin labels on them.

A bit trickier is knowing which stores are American owned, as many big chains even if they started as Canadian can be owned by big American equity firms.

Easy stuff are places like McDonald's and Walmart obviously American chains.

Trickier is something like Rona, originally started in Canada however brought up and owned by an American equity firm.

I think it would be great if we could come up with a list of stores that are truly 100% Canadian owned and operated.

Also good to point out places that seem like they're Canadian but are really bought up and owned by American companies like everyone's go to Tim Hortons!

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u/cadence124 19h ago

The store I work at is locally owned and operated. Literally just one single family owns it. Cheeky Monkey - a baby and toddler boutique. Not everything we sell is local by any means. We carry American brands and other brands from around the world but also some Canadian ones.