This is good news to me at least. While I don’t expect the $30 bottles of Elmer T Lee, imo won’t lament any decrease in prices for these artificially inflated bottles. They were never that good.
Terr_ · 1h ago
> "That's worse than a tariff, because it's literally taking your sales away, completely removing our products from the shelves ... that's a very disproportionate response," Lawson Whiting, the CEO of Brown-Forman
Nonsense, it is a perfectly reasonable response to the disproportionate, capricious, and possibly-illegal Republican import taxes on Americans (tariffs) that were thrown onto Canadian everything while "joking" about violently annexing Canada.
If Mr. Whiting cared about reasonable and proportional trade, he should be aiming those complaints at his own politicians. He's been maxing out in his donations to the company PAC for the last several years, but I can't tell you for sure what candidates that money went to. [0]
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P.S.: Fair disclosure, I live in a US state where Canada is--was?--the #1 international trade partner... You'd be surprised how little that narrows it down. [1]
Every one of these responses from American companies lamenting the loss of Canadian money seem to do everything but speak out against the government Canadians are reacting to.
tsol · 1h ago
When walmart wanted to attribute their raised prices to tariffs President Trump directly called them out, the subtext being a threat. Once one person backs down, it becomes normal to back down. I don't have much sympathy honestly but it's not surprising.
treetalker · 1h ago
If only there had been a way to see that bad things would be in store!
steveBK123 · 56m ago
But but.. the leopards were supposed to eat OTHER peoples faces!
nine_zeros · 55m ago
> Nonsense, it is a perfectly reasonable response to the crazy, abrupt, and possibly-illegal import taxes (tariffs) Republicans threw into Canadian everything while "joking" about annexing the country.
+1
>If he cared about reasonability and proportionality in trade, he should be aiming that at his own politicians.
+1 again.
Republicans are so dumb I can't even believe it. They seriously think they can bully their customers into buying their goods. I mean - what do they not understand here?
charcircuit · 1h ago
I think more and more kinds of alcoholic beverages will go bust as people wake up to them being poison and that they could just drink water instead.
steveBK123 · 56m ago
Edibles taking market share
collias · 1h ago
But water doesn't make me as happy.
righthand · 53m ago
We are absolutely seeing a downward trend as Millenials and younger are drinking less (though other substances are definitely replacing the booze). The fewer beverage companies, the better. However I am seeing places like bars add a selection of non-alcoholic drinks to their menus to help counter this. The market will be fine, the people will be better.
Nonsense, it is a perfectly reasonable response to the disproportionate, capricious, and possibly-illegal Republican import taxes on Americans (tariffs) that were thrown onto Canadian everything while "joking" about violently annexing Canada.
If Mr. Whiting cared about reasonable and proportional trade, he should be aiming those complaints at his own politicians. He's been maxing out in his donations to the company PAC for the last several years, but I can't tell you for sure what candidates that money went to. [0]
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P.S.: Fair disclosure, I live in a US state where Canada is--was?--the #1 international trade partner... You'd be surprised how little that narrows it down. [1]
[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...
[1] https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/07/usa-us-trade-canada-...
+1
>If he cared about reasonability and proportionality in trade, he should be aiming that at his own politicians.
+1 again.
Republicans are so dumb I can't even believe it. They seriously think they can bully their customers into buying their goods. I mean - what do they not understand here?