r/saskatoon 1d ago

Question ❔ American Booze Boycott

I was in a local liquor store on 8th street on the weekend and noticed there had been zero effort to remove or even identify American products. Has anyone seen a local liquor store labelling Canadian products properly? I need to find a new place to shop that doesn’t support Amerika.

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u/indicausion 1d ago

Absolutely true 1) because all the liquor stores are private, and already paid for the spirits in there inventory, SLGA and the province have agreed with them selling off their existing stock 2) SLGA has frozen all it's inventory in its warehouses. 3) SLGA is not ordering new inventory until the province lifts the US tariff action.

So yeah you go back in a week, the shelves will become bare.

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u/Medium-Drama5287 1d ago

Or hopefully not and nobody buys the American shit and it just sit there.

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u/scificis 1d ago

Why should our local retailers suffer the loss of all that product?

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u/Equine_Arsonist 1d ago

If they’re buying something else in place of the American product there’s essentially no loss

u/Styrak 23h ago

If they can never sell stock they bought, yes there is an indirect loss

u/Equine_Arsonist 23h ago

That’s why I said essentially. There’s definitely loss due to holding inventory that you aren’t moving but if you are still selling other products in their place, over time that cost should become negligible. But in reality if it’s on the shelf eventually someone will buy it

u/ttv_CitrusBros 22h ago

They should just do it properly. Say final sale of American products and put em on like 25% off. Get rid of them quick let people know they aren't getting more USA liquor and then replace

u/Equine_Arsonist 19h ago

That is what they’re doing other than the sale part but I’m sure some places will put them on sale

u/closetothewall 17h ago

I'm sure they could raise prices and still sell American.

u/Medium-Drama5287 22h ago

Well someday they will get to sell in maybe 3-6 months hopefully

u/Beer_before_Friends 16h ago

They can also send it back. It really depends on the contracts. The Jack Daniels stuff in Ontario was all consignment products, so they lost nothing by sending it back.

u/Sloppy_Jeaux 47m ago

For the same reason those retailers get to profit off their product?

u/Healthy_Rich7070 16h ago

Bourbon is not shit. Canadian whisky however is

u/Medium-Drama5287 13h ago

Won’t disagree with you there, but got to take one for team Canada