Last trip to the grocery store I couldn’t find any non-US salad kits, and Silk NextMilk is made down there now, because I guess our plants were the listeria ones. Chip dip was surprisingly hard to find too, although I did it.

I’m very pleased with how many vegetables actually come from Mexico (definitely via the US though), and there’s even a few things you can get from greenhouses, so that situation is less dire than I’d expected.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 month ago

    I went to buy a pair of scissors this week. I could not find a pair that wasn’t made in China.

    I went to buy a greeting card, 75% of them were made in China. It makes absolutely no sense. It’s a freaking happy birthday card. There is no way it’s cheaper to cut down the tree, mill the paper, send it to China on a boat, have it printed, then have it sent back to North America on another boat. WTF?

    • iktEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      yep small items i’ve pretty much given up on, nobody seems to care that $2 worth of stickers are made in China

      It just keeps going though, weirdest one for me was those little marshmallows you put on cakes:

      Coles Bake and Create Pink and White Mallows, 100g. Great for creating a delicious rocky road or topping hot drinks.

      Made in China

      https://www.coles.com.au/product/coles-mallows-pink-and-white-100g-2441652

      Really???

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 month ago

      Staples has online card building, you can customize all of it if you want, and it was about $2.50. Just have to plan ahead because they often print it at another facility and use the interstore shipping to get it to your pickup store.