Blaze (he/him) Canadian idea, what do you think ?
lathSounds good, but it depends on each individual market’s management whether they’ll have their lowly peons do the extra work of undoing that every time.
dumblederpThe workers would still be paid for the re-facing of the product. Maybe the store would realise that USA made products aren’t worth stocking if there’s more wages required to fix up the shelf aesthetics. Workers are employed to work, if there isn’t work they’ll get sent home or have their shifts shortened. I don’t mind having to work at work, it’s what they’re paying me for.
AussiemandeusSuch a revolutionary idea
Work at work crazy haha
The only problem with that logic, at least from my experience working retail, is that no jobs would be added just to face the shelves faster. The existing workers would just be expected to spend less time on every other task during their shift to make up for it.
It’s the same sort of logic as people who just like to leave carts anywhere they feel like in the parking lot. Someone gets paid to retrieve them after all, right?
It’s for a purpose, and it’s not too much of a pita. It’s worth it.
You most likely didn’t mean it that way, but I’m seeing an alternate, unpleasant interpretation that can be misconstrued from your words.
To use an example, it’s like those people who leave products they reconsider buying in random places due to being lazy, then say something like “I’m helping the workers stay employed by giving them work to do.” Which isn’t a very nice thing to do.
I don’t think that at a personal level there are many people who would say “yay, more work” in this kind of situation…
I think the framing needs to show that it isn’t going to be “more work”, it’s just different work. The people being tasked with this clean up would’ve been doing something else, not just standing around.
Minimum wage employees indeed would’ve been doing something else, and they will still need to do that something else later. Along with the other things that used to be someone elses job, not falls into this person. Grocery stores wont hire more workers or be understanding workers cant complete their tasks.
explodicleNo offense but have you worked at a grocery store? Nobody really cares that much. If you think I’m slacking off, then look at the security cameras.
The difference is the purpose. When people force stores to clean up after them for no reason, it can increase workloads and staffing requirements. It’s pennies on the dollar, but its still a violation of the social contract, especially when you factor in the employee’s personal involvement in cleaning up a mess that shouldn’t exist.
When people force stores to clean up after them for a political purpose, the cost is part of the point. It costs time and therefore money to continuously re-face those products, and therefore encourages the store to reduce its stock and shelving of that product.
Again, pennies on the dollar, so significant inventory changes would require extreme customer participation in the trend, but at the very least you may spread some awareness and find some solidarity in your daily routine. May even find like-minded employees and managers who “didn’t notice” or consistently “forget” to fix it.
I don’t think that at a personal level…
To be blunt, they don’t need to be happy about it. The company is still losing productivity over this situation, even if the employee is mad about it.
In fact, I’m kind of glad they’re mad about it because that means they’re gonna make mistakes and work slower for a while. The company will lose even more money, and assuming they’re paying any attention they’ll realize it’s because of the American products being defaced constantly and it’s just not worth stocking them
blinfabianseems like a pretty bad idea, i think this is just gonna inconvenience the workers. officially “made in EU/USA” labels would be better imo
Write your regultors, ask them to make the country of orientation a mandatory labeling requirement. Make it big and obvious.
I can’t speak for every worker, but I was a grocery clerk. Facing is a regular part of the job, and it’s for a good cause. It wouldn’t bother me
Exactly, especially jobs where you don’t have to directly interact with customers or management while doing it. I loved stock room work
Same here. Those 8 hours were gone anyways, made no difference to me.
Labels would be better but US producers aren’t going to label their products voluntarily are they.
It’s a great way to communicate foreign products to other shoppers and remind people that buying local is still important after the news cycle moves on.
It may be somewhat inconvenient for employees but that will financially inconvenience employers and encourage them to discontinue more foreign product lines.
US producers aren’t going to label their products voluntarily
They used to, proudly. But that was months ago.
Labels are not always sufficient. Labels for Country of Origin or Made in Europe (or China) can still mean that the profits go to USA, would for me also be a reason to look for alternatives.
Many of my local stores are using red maple leafs and changing the barcode names to indicate Canadian made products.
zonnewinI love the idea!
That’s atleast better than picking up a product and leaving it somewhere else because you decided that you didnt need it anymore.
zeppoI hate the mofos who do that.
agentshagsGotta love when you find a steak that’s already pre room temperature. Saves you the trouble when you get out home!
It’s ok, I only do it with ice cream.
I only do it with other people’s prescriptions! Bwahaha!!
You monster !
I only do that with raw chicken, and I leave it on top of fresh vegetables so people can see it.
You monster !
I only do that with raw chicken, and I leave it on top of fresh vegetables so people can see it.
stebothere’s people who do that?
way too many, yes.
especially great if they put something refrigerated on an unrefrigerated shelf. workers will now have to throw it away because they can’t say how long it was out of the fridge
What if, in this case, the ‘somewhere else’ is in the bin? Or just randomly chucked through the ceiling tiles?
A sort of fruit based ‘paint ball’ would surely stop them from importing US produce.
That’s not fair to the workers in the store. It’s not management that’s cleaning up.
Sorry, I was joking. I don’t actually think fruit paint ball is safe or productive.
At least it is not a task the bosses can automate. Some job security there.
Love the idea!
db0love me some direct action.
I’m waiting to see this done with Teslas.
Whistling Diesel beat everyone to it years ago
MubelotixIt’s great because it will also affect people who don’t care
Fine, we’ll just make our products spherical.
Os they roll upside down by themselves?
There is no up or down with spheres. Checkmate Canadians!
How is the label printed?
Symmetrical circular qr codes placed symmetrically of course 🫠
FlicI meant that the placement of the circles would be symmetrical with respect to each other.
And now Jeremy has to stay an hour after close to face the shelves because his asshole manager won’t let him leave until the shelves are in perfect order.
I appreciate the sentiment, but this is just possibly ruining somebody’s night that just wanted to clock out and meet up with their friends.
Well at least he will get paid for extra time right?
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Right?
ZorsithYep. Or get bitched at for going over 39.9 hours (or is that just a US thing?)
FWIW I worked in a supermarket. Go nuts, nobody cares. My asshole manager would make me keep moving everything anyways, and I later learned this was to prevent customers from easily finding the things they wanted.
Wasting company time hurt the company, not me. I didn’t mind collecting shopping carts either. My friends weren’t waiting for me to get off work because the shifts were irregular anyways.
I didn’t even care about stuff that risked the store shutting down, because nobody intends to work at a grocery store for very long. Nothing hurt my pay because it was already minimum wage. Go ahead and steal, I sure wasn’t paid to care.
noretusAh, I didn’t see this post.
bsky.app/profile/…/3ljxf6ou6l22a btw for the post on Bsky.
Thanks!
Remove the price tag that’s typically on the shelf below the product. It’s usually just a little paper insert behind some plastic.
Little US flag or Trump stickers that you can discretly add to packaging.
Placing the products upside down is a good one.
For loose produce: place fruit or veg in the little carry bags that are usually nearby, as much as you can fit. Then, just put the filled and tied bag back.
Many larger places have replaced the paper tag with an eink display these days, it’s actually hard to notice it’s not paper unless you look closely
Symbolizes well with the upside down US flag in distress.
小莱卡I wonder if they do the same with the guns and bombs the US sells them.
Sadly it’s more difficult to turn computers, websites, tech services, and operating systems upside down.
It’s a nice idea for small physical products but it would also be nice to have a movement to boycott and give alternatives to American tech services.
I’m almost there! Gonna install a new OS on my phone in the weekend, then I’m completely murica free.
Next step: convincing and helping others
Graphene?