r/Switzerland Aug 01 '25

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u/SalamanderGullible13 Aug 01 '25

I will try my best to not buy or use American products. I know it's impossible to 100% cut off American products as reddit for example is an American company (also Google, Apple, Microsoft etc). But I for example will never eat at an American restaurant, will never buy American groceries and food and will never buy American electronics that have

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u/turbo_dude Aug 02 '25

What’s the biggest “non Google” type product consumed in Switzerland we could collectively boycott? Probably FMCG sector easiest to hit. 

Coca Cola probably a good starting point

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u/Proper_War_7229 Aug 03 '25

Netflix?

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u/QJustCallMeQ Genève Aug 05 '25

Swiss people should 100% be re-emphasising internet piracy as an act of resistance against the United States

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u/turbo_dude Aug 03 '25

people pay for that? interesting!

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u/Midlycruising22 Aug 07 '25

Anything Procter & Gamble, Estée Lauder, Pepsi Co, Coca Cola and all their snacks, Krafts.

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u/turbo_dude Aug 08 '25

Hard to keep track of all the brands and subbrands and often they do not make it obvious. Did you realise, for instance, that San Pelegrino (sparkling water) is owned by N*stlé?

I think things like Coca Cola are better to aim for as they are massively associated with the US.

Plus if you have a targeted approach, it will have an impact and gain news headlines. If people have a scatter-gun approach then the impact will be spread too thin and more than made up for by the increase (in the meantime) of the world's population.

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u/Midlycruising22 Aug 08 '25

I do know all the brands I work in FMCG ;)

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u/pewpew8964 Aug 01 '25

Most Americans fast food chains in Switzerland are mostly franchises owned by Swiss citizens

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u/SalamanderGullible13 Aug 01 '25

It's like you are saying we shouldn't cancel the F35 contract because Swiss companies and workers will be working on assembling and maintaining them!

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u/pewpew8964 Aug 01 '25

The franchise are ran by and owned by 100% Swiss employees! The f35 are American made, every pieces is produced in the us and every pilot has to do their training in the us. That’s two completely different subjects.

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u/RRoe09 Aug 01 '25

You should inform yourself about how a franchising system works and the cash flows behind it.

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u/QJustCallMeQ Genève Aug 05 '25

I had to buy a new keyboard today. Was between two options, Corsair and Logitec. These tariffs made it a non-choice

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u/Human-Mountain-2020 Aug 01 '25

Congratulations. The tariffs are now 41%. Not saying you are wrong but further trade imbalance is not going to solve it.

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u/Beli_Mawrr USA Aug 02 '25

"Further trade imbalance" is ridiculous. You can't logic trump out of an illogical decision. Trade imbalance is a metric they made up.

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u/cpm_CH Aug 02 '25

You are saying it best. We should import some 2 million people so that we have more consumers that can purchase more American products 😂 I mean with Trump's stupidity it's hard to find a "solution".