And where you do buy, to the degree possible make it local, from mom and pops and send as much chill to big box and national/corporate brands as possible. Sure, you need groceries and gas and electricity and you may have limited local options but after that, resist, economically. Between the boycotts of travel and goods/services from overseas, if we add decreased consumption here at home business leaders will notice-- banks, Wall Street, large corporations of all stripes. As orders for goods from China have either been cut by US firms that know trying to sell their usual widgets for 145% more + their usual mark-up won't fly or Chinese manufacturers who won't absorb the tariff hit as big players like Walmart are trying to demand, port of LA is expecting container traffic to fall 44% imminently. Layoff WARN notices have already been drafted and it will be , ship, dock, trucking, rail, warehouse and other workers who have nothing to handle. And as shipments for things like back to school clothes and supplies should be getting ready in China right now, they aren't. The shock to the supply chain from whenever Trump or someone finally blinks will takes months or even a year to stabilize and the longer the blink is delayed, the worse it will be. A message needs to be sent and we consumers have some power to do that. The sad thing is the US workers who have been or will be hurt from all this half baked posturing and BS.
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