I feel like this goes without saying, but shopping at Costco is not shopping local. If you can afford to, shopping at local small businesses is usually the best way to spend your money, regardless of where you live.
But still, people will continue to shop at Costco, and if you can get them to switch to Canadian sources, that’s at least better than nothing.
Unfortunate,
but luckily we don’t have to win every battle to win the war
Costco is not Canadian.
True, but Costco also buys products from Canadian producers in large enough volume to keep some of them afloat and hire more employees.
If no one buys from Costco, it will shut down it’s Canadian operations, then you’ll have unemployed Costco workers, some producers may have to lay off their employee, and the producers that need volume purchases from costco to survieve will shut down and many people will be unemployed and drag the economy down more.
With Canadian economy uncertain, only companies with enough confidence, cash and credit will be risk expanding their business. The ones who can, have no reason to do it on a downward market.
If you want to keep them employed, a few entrepeneurs have to take a risk and start businesses until they can grow them to the size of Costco. Who is going to risk their retirement fund, credit and peace of mind to do that with uncertain economy?
Buying Canadian products only at Costco will, hopefully, keep it up and running long enough for it to realize that they need to buy more Canadian products, if it wants to survive.
Granted that this is not an ideal solution but it is the least costly solution.
Kicking Horse Coffee is owned by Lavazza, an Italian company.
At least it’s “Not American”. The Quaker Oats listing is a bad joke: – Quaker is owned by PepsiCo.
Ya, this is a pretty shitty list.
This is what happens when anyone with half a braincell can shit out ai generated list websites on “insert oddly specific topic here”
Also made in Canada: Kirkland toilet paper, Kirkland granola bars.
There’s also this article:
https://money.ca/news/is-kirkland-canadianCostco sources their products via contracts, similar to Aldi. Sounds like Costco Canada tries to source things from Canada, but it may not always be the case, so loosely trust Kirkland and some of the other options. Watch for label changes, etc.
Big box stores are probably not a great option anyway if keeping your money local is your goal.
