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'Buy Canadian' Reddit post becomes secret ingredient to help save Ontario condiment business

www.cbc.ca /news/canada/sauce-buy-canadian-sales-boost-1.7487474

"With so much interest in buying small Canadian companies, I figured I would share her products as an alternative. Your support would change her life. All products have a maple leaf!"

The response was immediate and enormous, she says, with order requests through her website increasing by almost 4,000 per cent, according to Williams.

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I wish we had more Canadian products in the grocery stores here in BC. It’s hard avoiding all American products.
- It's hard but even small efforts help. For me the hierarchy kinda goes like this:
  Canadian company
  Non-Canadian, non-US company
  US company franchised/operating in Canada
  US company operating in the US
  I aim for number one, try to avoid number four, and the two inner ones are a little more loosey-goosey for me and will depend mostly on the individual product. There are some things we just don't produce here so... I just do what I can, where I can, and don't feel guilty if there's an American product I can't replace (ever/yet).
  
  Yeah I think we follow the same logic, it just makes sense. Even though there's sometimes a hit in the cost or quantity of the product.

Nice to hear* little stories of success too.