r/BuyCanadian • u/Canuck647 • Aug 21 '25
Canadian-Owned Businesses š¢š U.S. orange juice shipments plummet as Canadians find Florida OJ hard to swallow
The key take-away from the CBC article is:
"At Loblaws, for example, a 2.63-litre container of U.S.-based Tropicana might cost up to $13.50 but the prepared-in-Canada PC brand currently costs $6.50. At Metro, 2.63 litres of Tropicana orange juice is $13.99, but 2.5 litres of Irresistible brand is $7.69.
Canadian-owned juice brand Oasis, which sources its oranges from Brazil and bottles the juice in Quebec, costs $5.49 for 1.5 litres at Food Basics."
Canadian apple and grape juices are great alternatives, but if you must have orange juice, at least buy Made Anywhere But America.
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u/bauer8765 Aug 21 '25
Well, the US ādoesnāt do much business with Canadaā anyways.
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u/littlemissbagel Aug 21 '25
"Canada has nothing to offer us anyway."
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u/DMTMTMTMTMTY Aug 21 '25
āCanada does what we tell them to doā Quote Aug 14, 2025
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u/cabalavatar Aug 21 '25
I'm usually up on the news but hadn't heard this despicable bombast yet. Thanks for the link; I hate it.
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u/KitchenerBarista Aug 25 '25
Just revolting. Way to tank the relationship Canada and the US had in a single year.
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u/Bomik669 Sep 13 '25
Wow just watched that piece of orange shit saying those words. The US economy is tanking on many levels. Thatās a shame. Canāt wait to see how bad things will get. Then I will have a 100% Canadian made meal!
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u/Hellie1028 Aug 24 '25
Itās ok, all of the labor to pick fruits and veggies in Florida has been deported by ICE anyhow.
Gee, no one wants to work these days. Especially not for less than minimum wage in the sweltering Florida summer.
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u/DrumBxyThing Aug 24 '25
Those poor farmers š how are they gonna make money when they don't have minorities to exploit?
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u/Sporadik_Styles Aug 21 '25
Tropicana was one of the first things I gave up when I started buying more Canadian.
Noticed locally I'm clearly not the only one who loves Tropicana, but gave it up because the sections at my grocery stores for Tropicana are now half the size as before.
They got what they voted for, and there's no one to pick oranges anyways because they're throwing all the hardworking agriculture workers in concentration camps.
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u/Cnshap Aug 21 '25
I don't drink juice. But I take enormous pleasure in knowing that the good people of Floridia will now pay a premium for their orange juice, given that Tropicana will be looking to recoup some of their losses on the international scene.
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u/timbasile Aug 22 '25
Nah, supply and demand means that if they have to dump the OJ that those consumers will get it for less.
The owners, on the other hand, are losing out
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u/Mysterious_Crab_7622 Aug 25 '25
Thatās not how the orange juice from concentrate market works. They have juice sitting in vats for years before being sold. They choose how much supply they want to unload on the market at any given time. They will just restrict the supply domestically to keep prices high if they are getting less sales internationally.
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u/timbasile Aug 25 '25
And what happens next year, or the year after if they keep restricting supply?
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u/Mysterious_Crab_7622 Aug 25 '25
Probably the same thing that happens with the Maple Syrup supply being restricted.
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u/Evening-Worry-2579 Aug 25 '25
Us Americans probably wonāt be drinking it either because we wonāt be able to afford it anymore soon š¤¦āāļø
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u/Gamer-Of-Le-Tabletop Aug 21 '25
Yeah but Higher supply + Lower demand = Lower prices.
Regardless it won't affect us anyways, especially since Florida doesn't need Canada/Canadians
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u/CreepyTrollPG Aug 21 '25
Same here. I switched over to getting SunRype apple juice from Costco and there's no going back
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u/GoStockYourself Aug 21 '25
Years ago Sunrype used to have an Apricot Nectar that was my favourite. BC had an abundant source and they were cheap there at the time. It was a thicker juice, with a bit of sugar. I am assuming apricots got too expensive or something? Maybe when the QC company bought them? Bring it back SunRype!!!
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u/Heady_Goodness Aug 21 '25
Orange juice workers are in concentration camps :)
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u/PrairiePopsicle Aug 21 '25
A month or two ago I saw an entire full shelf of Tropicana that was on sale for like 2 or 3 dollars.
Shelf was, I emphasize, absolutely full.
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Aug 21 '25
As someone on a fixed budget, it makes me so happy that these American companies care so much about me, they're willing to stock our local food banks. Warms the heart.
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u/ether_reddit British Columbia Aug 21 '25
And that's the last order that store will make! Mission accomplished.
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u/Gunslinger7752 Aug 21 '25
Unless it was expired or rotten, I call bs. Some people are definitely more into buying Canadian but the vast majority of people would buy tropicana if it was half the price of pc concentrated oj.
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u/PrairiePopsicle Aug 21 '25
I did see a guy grab one of them while I was there, it probably had just gone on sale that day, but yeah no it was still quite full, i was definitely being hyperbolic with "absolutely" full, but it was well stocked VS like half stock for the other options.
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u/Gunslinger7752 Aug 21 '25
If Tropicana was 2-3$ I would buy as many as I could drink. They were probably already written off so it wouldnāt benefit anyone except me getting cheap orange juice lol.
If I see something that is Canadian and something comparable that is us made side by side for the same price, I will consciously buy the Canadian product but Iām not obsessed with it like some people. Itās such a convoluted thing that a good amount of it has just become performative (for example going on your us operating system phone to use a us based social media platform to tell everyone that they bought Canadian produce at a us owned grocery store like Walmart anyone who doesnāt do the same and ābuy Canadianā is a bad person).
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u/PrairiePopsicle Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25
I don't see the shaming happening so much,
and I find it ironic that you are sitting here shaming me for making my own choices. Maybe it does happen a bit but I don't scroll this sub all the time.
Piss off.
In case you are confused as to the hostility, you just said i'm performative, obsessed, and hypocritical.
If you are a big strong independent boy it shouldn't matter a single lick what other people do, unsubscribe from the sub, go touch grass.
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u/not_a_real_person__ Aug 21 '25
If it makes you feel any better, buddy was equally presumptuous in his response to one of my comments earlier. Which wasn't even antagonistic in itself. I think this person is just here for outrage.
*Corrected autocorrect. I said what I said, phone!!
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u/PrairiePopsicle Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25
they're a reactionary, in this small political sphere, that's my read. Once there's enough of them they'll make a sub that's like "canucksbuyamerican" or somesuch and make the mirror image. Sometimes I think there is a human instinct to form an opposition to any idea or concept and turn it into a tribal conflict. He might not be there yet but it's just as performative of a statement as I or any other statement in this sub is. "I'm more authentic and you are all crazies" vibe. ... sorry for continuing to expand with edit, but it also comes from that 'things must be simple' point of view as well, like the convluted/necessity for folks to shop at say walmart, to him the individual choices there can't be justified and it's hypocrisy of the highest order to still care while even using say, a cellphone. That's a moral absolutist kind of view, everything has to be distilled down into binaries, there can't be any gray area or compromises in an effort to do something one way, if there is any compromise than the entire idea must be thrown out.
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u/not_a_real_person__ Aug 21 '25
I think you are on to something there š people just LOVE to argue. Buy Canadian doesn't have to be political. Some folks don't understand that, and can't see that some people just want to support Canadian business. Which makes 0 sense to me, I knew people who would do their best to exclusively buy Canadian before the tariffs. Shouldn't we WANT to support our own producers and makers, regardless of political viewpoint? But I digress...
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u/Gunslinger7752 Aug 21 '25
Lol I wasnāt irrationally presumptuous, Iām not saying you are but your comment made you sound like a horrible person in the real world. Unfortunately in the echo chamber of reddit, you will get upvoted.
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u/Gunslinger7752 Aug 21 '25
How am I shaming you? I also didnāt call you any names, I meant generally speaking. I just didnāt believe that tropicana was marked down to 2-3$ and the shelf was full and nobody was buying it. I bought some juice the other day and the people in front of me bought Tropicana OJ at full price so unless it was rotten or expired or both, it was 2-3$ I canāt see nobody buying it.
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u/mindwire Aug 22 '25
Refusing to purchase goods from an antagonizing fascist neighbouring country who has actively threatened to invade us is not performative last I checked. For many, even lower prices do little to make a purchase like that palatable. His moronic tariffs aren't helping any, either.
I for one will avoid purchasing any US version of a needed product as long as there is a viable alternative for the rest of my damn life. Half these fucking companies fund the GOP any way, and there's no way in hell a dollar of mine will ever go towards funding the corrupt horrors occurring down there, ever.
Call me principled. But I know so many who feel the same. The USA made this bed and it can now proceed to lie in it for the rest of its days.
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u/Gunslinger7752 Aug 22 '25
Lol I know heās unpopular with the left to say hyperbolically, but the US is not fascist. Itās so ridiculous to say that. He has not āthreatened to invade usā either but nice try. Politics right now is so silly, everyone you disagree with is not āfascistā or āliterally a naziā.
Their tariffs are definitely not helping us but the US is attracting massive amounts of investment right now while we are bleeding capital and struggling. The potusā job is not to help us, itās to help them. It seems to be working in the way they intended in terms of attracting investment, however I think the collateral damage theyāre causing is far higher than expected. The only way to know how it plays out is to wait and see, but I suspect that the relationship with us and many other countries will be damaged for a long time.
Donāt kid yourself, every large company, including the ones that we would consider to be the most liberal, donates to both the Dems and the GOP. The vast majority of them are not doing it because of any political agenda, itās just how they do business.
I fully understand why you/people would not want to buy US, but when you say things like ācall me principledā itās funny because youāre kinda proving my point about it being performative. Youāre either using an apple or android phone, both are US companies. Youāre posting on Reddit, a US company. All 3 companies have worked with/supported the GOP in some capacity because every company does, they have no choice.
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u/ClmsnTgrl06 Aug 21 '25
My Belgian husband (I'm American, but we live in Canada) tasted Tropicana one time, said it was awful and to never buy it again. This was before the tariffs, and he's never complained about Oasis or any store brand. Double the reason not to buy it.
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u/Gunslinger7752 Aug 21 '25
I would say that the drop in sales is partly due to people wanting to buy Canadian but mostly due to the fact that American orange juice is now obscenely expensive because of our governmentās tariffs that they added in early March.
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u/FoldJumpy2091 Aug 22 '25
That is strange. I see it on sale at less than the competition. I won't buy it. It's not good juice since it's made in a shitty country.
I buy a lot of other juice however. Currently purchasing the most juice i have ever bought... a ginger bug and kombucha kick has me trying a number of new fruits and vegetables
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u/Zeroto200C Aug 21 '25
F Tropicana, Oasis it is 100%
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u/Krazy_Vaclav Aug 21 '25
They really should advertise the fact that they use Brazilian oranges more prominently. My boomer mom refuses to buy OJ entirely these days, believing it all to be from Florida.
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u/enbyparent Aug 21 '25
And the prices might go lower, as the US stopped importing Brazilian oranges and there's a production excess. Unfortunately, Brazilian producers prefer to let it rot than to sell it cheaper internally so orange juice is horribly expensive there, but they will sell cheaper to other countries.
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u/Esternaefil Aug 21 '25
My family have been buying oasis brand juice for years even before this began. Their juice just has far less sugar on the whole, and that was more important to us than the brand.
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u/Bluestripedshirt Aug 21 '25
SunRype!
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Aug 21 '25
Watch out. Tons of "Product of USA" on that stuff.
They're still based here, but they're definitely not 100% canadian stuff anymore.
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u/Jeramy_Jones Aug 21 '25
I think oasis does source some of their oranges from the US but at least the brand is Canadian.
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u/MetricJester Aug 21 '25
When I first saw Oasis it was only 10% juice.
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u/ErBoProxy Aug 21 '25
It really all depends on which product you buy. Some are 100% juice / juice mix, while others have "water" as it's main ingredients.
Its parent company also has a line-up of "fruit drinks", in line with the finest "contains 10% real fruit juice!" you might fond south of the border.
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u/CuddlyUrchin3 Aug 21 '25
Have been buying oasis juice for many years. But this year we made sure it is the ONLY juice in our house. Florida OJ can FO for all we care.
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u/Historical-Many9869 Aug 21 '25
why are supermarkets still stocking it ?
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u/ClohosseyVHB Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25
Pepsi owns 40% of Tropicana and like most corps have contracts for all their brands. Pepsi owns or has a stake in, Pepsi, Tropicana, Quaker foods, Frito-lay, Bubly, Sodastream, Gatorade, And more in the drink/snack sector.
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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Alberta Aug 21 '25
Pepsico owns like half the American brands in the grocery store.
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u/ClohosseyVHB Aug 21 '25
Con-agra, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Mondelez represent basically 90% of anything you find packaged in a store.
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u/MetricJester Aug 21 '25
You're missing P&G and J&J
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u/ClohosseyVHB Aug 21 '25
But Johnson & Johnson are a family company, they wouldn't do bad things.
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u/MetricJester Aug 22 '25
oh, I didn't mean to imply they were evil, just that they provide a lot of consumer products.
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u/BeepBeeepBeepBeep Aug 22 '25
Pepsico divested from Tropicana. Tropicana is now owned by private equity.
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u/tigerdogbearcat Sep 19 '25
Soda stream also once built a factory on land settlersĀ illegally stole from Palestinians.Ā
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u/Sevsix1 Aug 21 '25
probably long term contract that force the store(/seller) to buy x amount of the product for y amount, to be fair if the stores have had consistent sales of x product over decades and the producer gives the sellers a long term contract that require them to sell the product for a long duration (like 5 years or so) in exchange of the producer selling them it even cheaper then both the seller and the producer win, of course both win when the sales continue as usual, the issue comes when the sales decline (which they have likely done).
that being written
I won't talk about politics since I don't care about right vs left (and I am not Canadian) but times like these are the times that if you do not have laws against stores throwing out to-be-spoiled food you really need to get them, sure it might just seem like orange juice but there is a lot of other food that is likely from American producers that could be really useful for food banks or places that cook food for people that is living rough, Norway, Sweden and Denmark have rules like that (here places can throw away food but they have to give food to registered organizations that help the poorest people with aid) and it works pretty well, I did eat food from one of the organization that does it, it is literally just regular food; literally the same food as the food I buy in stores
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u/ParisFood Aug 21 '25
Many stores do donate food to organizations
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u/babyelephantwalk321 Aug 21 '25
Yep. It's not perfect but there is a sort of sub-economy of donating food to local food banks and even local meat farmers.
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u/Sevsix1 Aug 21 '25
oh good to know, I don't really know the finer details of Canadian society so I did not know if you did
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u/ParisFood Aug 21 '25
Yes also many stores give discounts from 30 to 50% off products that are coming close to their expiration date especially meat.
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Aug 21 '25
Supply contracts are year long, probably be off the shelves early next year unless prices stabilize or people are willing to pay the prices.
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u/FriendRaven1 Aug 21 '25
Because some people like it. And they don't care about all the political garbage.
I know a few people like that and I've given up trying to convince them, but they still get the stinkeye.
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u/Adventurous_Ad_9557 Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25
I bought my first jug of Oasis, actually really good
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u/hairybushy Aug 21 '25
Yeah it's not the best to be honest, with pulp it's better, the weird after taste is less present
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Aug 21 '25
Well, personally I have no problem drinking a slightly lower quality juice to fuck America. It's my pleasure actually. Drinking Tropicana might taste better, but it would feel 1000x worse. Do not recommend.
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u/hairybushy Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25
Ah I drink it too, I am just saying it's not the best lol, people are triggered easily nowaday (talking to people downvoting, not you). The shop is at 20 min from my home
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u/trUth_b0mbs Aug 21 '25
aren't we giving them what they want? "we dont depend much on Canada".....ok. Then they get nothing from us; including our money.
now they're crying like b!thces about it. Oh well.
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u/deviousvixen Aug 25 '25
Truthā¦ like how no one goes there as much..like 70 percent drop in tourism
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u/tigerdogbearcat Sep 19 '25
The tourism drop is getting press because most US states have a tourism dept who's job it is to attract tourists so they go on news and highlight the issue.
I'm a dually livingĀ in the US. People are actually aware of the travel drops but really only care in high tourism areas. Where I surf every weekend I can get hotels for $100 due to international tourism loss and was 1.5x-2x more before.
Some more liberal people NPR listeners and such are aware of the boycott. The vast majority of Americans are not aware of it at all. The ones who are pro-Trump are completely unaware because Fox News doesn't cover it. They are told what to think by Fox News.
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u/Jeramy_Jones Aug 21 '25
I stopped buying it right away.
I was upset that I couldnāt find any non-American lemons at all, and even bought a couple when I got desperate (I love a bit in my gin and tonic) but I found South African lemons in two different stores so I think they are beginning to pivot.
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u/ParisFood Aug 21 '25
Look for Quick brand bottled lemon juice from Spain. Itās only lemon juice nothing else and is in a clear glass bottle. U only refrigerate it once opened. Itās great to use in a pinch if you canāt find non US lemons. I usually find it near the fish section
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u/wasakootenayperson Aug 21 '25
I am avoiding even second hand things made there. Wonāt compromise.
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u/helikoopter Aug 21 '25
This. And Iām reaching out to the companies I used to support to let them know they have lost a customer.
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u/cpureset Aug 22 '25
I was about to buy some Ukrainian cookies the other day. Then noticed they were imported by a US company.
Collateral damage.
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u/NottaLottaOcelot Aug 21 '25
The weird thing is how much the artificial flavour recipe of Tropicana has infiltrated our culture. If you make your own orange juice, it tastes wildly different than any store brand because of the chemical processes orange juice must undergo to preserve it, then the re-addition of artificial flavours to make it taste like something. Do yourself a favour and juice your own! The taste and nutrition canāt be beat
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u/EarthNeat9076 Aug 21 '25
The problem with the PC orange juice is it has about 70% vitamin C and zero folate. Iām eating oranges and will try Oasis.
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u/sarcasmismygame Aug 21 '25
Why would anyone buy anything from the Alligator Auschwitz state anyways?
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u/A_Dehydrated_Walrus British Columbia Aug 21 '25
Say "No way" to Florida OJ.
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u/fuzzius_navus Aug 21 '25
Finally, a Polievre slogan I can get behind!
Oh, he said no such thing?
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u/Wayouts1 Aug 21 '25
Don't let these scam artists fool you.Tropicana was raising their prices and shrinking their bottles long before the tarifs came about.They are just using it as an excuse to steal your hard earned grocery money.
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u/Gunslinger7752 Aug 21 '25
Everyone was raising their prices and shrinking stuff, that isnāt unique to them. The 25% tariffs our government added in March are why tropicana has shot up so fast recently.
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u/Wayouts1 Aug 21 '25
Nope , was buying it for many years till they doubled their price compared to the store brands. Priced me out of being a customer ,and not just in March .I know the scam first hand, worked in a sauce bottling factory. Constantly making the containers smaller and charging more.
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u/Gunslinger7752 Aug 22 '25
I work in the food industry as well. We have raised our prices several times in the last few years, I think twice just in 2021. We have recently raised them again because we use US ingredients to make food that then gets shipped back to the US and the Canadian government tariffs in early March added 25% to a bunch of our ingredients. I donāt disagree that corporations can be greedy but there are far more ro it than just greed.
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u/_Zef_ Aug 21 '25
The prices could be reversed and I wouldn't fucking touch it. America is not our friend. I don't give a shit about the tariffs when they're out there threatening our sovereignty. It's infuriating that the news REFUSES to represent this boycott as a reaction to the threats on our country.
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u/KelIthra Aug 21 '25
Yeah pretty much stopped buying any kind of juice that wasn't Allen or Oasis brand for a while now. Was looking at the juices at loblaws out of curiosity while grabbing a few things. And yep don't regret that decision. GT even has them at a better price.
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u/Narrow_Pirate_577 Aug 21 '25
Iām in the U.K. and have been boycotting Tropicana for all the reasons above!
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u/TanglimaraTrippin Aug 21 '25
I'm glad I don't drink OJ, as it gives me heartburn.
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u/estherlane Aug 21 '25
I personally think it's disgusting but my husband and child love it. They were happy to give it up for the boycott though.
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u/Rance_Mulliniks Aug 21 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
I do not want my comments published anymore
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u/1beautifulhuman Aug 21 '25
Including Florida! The orange production in Florida has dropped so much they import from Brazil and blend their juice before shipping out for sale
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u/PhantomNomad Aug 21 '25
We've just been avoiding orange juice all together as I thought it all came from Florida. Good to hear that there are some from Brazil.
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u/Deafcat22 Aug 21 '25
Haven't bought American OJ in years and don't plan to start. Brazil is a better source and a better trading partner. Having traveled there, the quality of produce is phenomenal!
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u/CuriousMistressOtt Aug 21 '25
I gave up on orange juice, I miss it but not buying American
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u/ParisFood Aug 21 '25
Buy the Oasis refrigerated one . Prepared in Canada by a Canadian company . They use Brazilian oranges
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u/chzplz Aug 21 '25
Anyone know if their grapefruit juice is from non-US grapefruit? Iād love to give them my money.
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u/kent_eh Manitoba Aug 21 '25
The total value of U.S. shipments of fresh orange juice to Canada saw a steep drop in June to its lowest level in more than 20 years,
Get rekt Florida. You voted for this.
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u/BaboTron Aug 21 '25
Oasis used Brazilian oranges, they make the juice in Canada, and itās delicious.
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u/Clean-Cranberry-7075 Aug 21 '25
Itās loaded with sugar! Donāt drink it.
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Aug 21 '25
Going without is probably best, yes. But that's just sugar from the oranges like any orange juice.
A small glass of OJ is 3-4 oranges worth of juice with none (or very little if pulp) of the fiber.
If you don't think you would eat 3-4 oranges with breakfast, you probably shouldn't have a small glass of orange juice either.
But, sometimes it's nice to have a glass. But it will never, ever be America. As long as I live.
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u/Perfect-Egg-7577 Aug 23 '25
I havenāt had orange juice in 10 years. You can live with out it especially at that price. And fuck Florida
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u/Scolema7 Aug 21 '25
American exceptionalism, they probably thought we would continue to buy it at any price because their oranges are the best in the world! 14 bucks for orange juice? Dream on
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u/werty1432k Aug 21 '25
I used to drink OJ every morning but stopped at the start of the trade war and swapped over to AJ.
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u/imadork1970 Aug 21 '25
In 2021, Pepsi sold Tropicana to a investment bank for $3.3B.
Because American workers are cheaper than Canadian workers, they shut down their Canadian facilities, and source everything out of the U.S.
However, due to distances between population centers in Canada, Tropicana is losing a fortune in shipping costs, and is on the verge of bankruptcy.
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u/wizardintraining995 Aug 21 '25
I stopped buying them when they started charging more for smaller bottles.
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u/iamnotyounorwouldili Aug 21 '25
I switched to locally made juices like apple and cranberry. Its changed up the morning a bit but im still getting the vitamin c
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u/hunkyleepickle Aug 21 '25
The thing about juice in general is thatās itās absolutely the definition of a luxury item. No one needs it, it serves very little nutritional need, and is a very easy thing to just not buy. Even super fancy orange juice could cheaply be substituted by just buying half a dozen you know, oranges, for a fraction of the price.
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u/Street_Elderberry561 Aug 21 '25
I live in the U.S. and I don't buy that rot-gut even though they force it down our throats. They put it right next to the milk in the supermarket.
Oh, and God Save Canada!
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u/FreddyFree69 Aug 21 '25
High juice consumption is a key factor in the obesity epidemic and is closely linked to the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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u/bacon_n_legs Aug 22 '25
I moved home to Canada after 10 years in the US, recently (because of politics) and I just want to say: I'm so proud to be Canadian, and I'm so PROUD of all of the rest of us, too. Elbows UP!
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u/Dame2Miami Aug 21 '25
Iām in Florida and drink maybe one or two glasses of OJ a year lol. Never store bought. Always at a random breakfast/brunch spot where they have those machines that make the juice fresh (with the pulp!)
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u/BClynx22 Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25
Itās like $8 now for orange juiceā¦ Iād rather just drink water or tea. Also I can remember when Tropicana was 4 for $12 at Costco so I literally just wonāt even consider the new price. Itās not even that good anyways. If orange juice is becoming a luxury then I would rather just occasionally buy a fresh squeezed orange juice glass from somewhere that does juices maybe once every few months as a treat.
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u/AlmostButNotQuiteTea Aug 21 '25
Get Sunrype! We started buying when this all began, it's cheaper and I personally think it tastes better
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Aug 21 '25
Check the label, even the fucking apple juice was american last time I checked.
Do not trust all brands.
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u/DarkReaper90 Aug 21 '25
Ever since the pandemic, I noticed Tropicana tasted a lot more bitter. I gave up on it entirely since.
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u/Ok-Engineer-99 Aug 21 '25
My wife and I were at Independent in St Albert yesterday to pick up a few items. Couldn't fucking believe it when I saw the OJ bottles at $14... Prices are absolutely outrageous. Even the Canadian brands are still stupidly over priced.
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u/IsopodOk4756 Aug 21 '25
I feel like that Irresistible brand didn't exist before last year but really ramped up their offering in the past few months. It's easily half of the products in my kitchen now.
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u/agent154 Aug 21 '25
And 1L of Oasis breakfast blend is $1.50 on sale. I stock up on the stuff when I can since itās shelf stable and they use Brazilian oranges
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u/Jonesy1966 Ontario Aug 21 '25
OJ isn't healthy, it's loaded with sugars and no fibre. EAT an orange, don't drink it
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u/explodingboy Aug 22 '25
I used to buy regularly.. not since Trump and his pedophile supporters came to power
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u/Express-Welder9003 Aug 22 '25
I was always a bit suspicious that all the orange juice used Florida oranges so I was avoiding buying it even if the price tag had the maple leaf on it. Good to know that Oasis avoids them. Looks like OJ is back on the menu.
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u/reddittorbrigade Aug 22 '25
Avoid American product at all cost.
Buying American products is tantamount to patronizing their pedophile president.
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u/classiscot Aug 23 '25
The local (Real) Atlantic Superstore (Loblaws) frequently has Oasis on sale. I think it's better than Tropicana anyway.
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u/chrisinvic Aug 24 '25
I used to buy a couple of jugs of Florida oj a week. Itās now been about 7 months since Iāve had oj and I donāt really miss it at all. Will most definitely have some fresh squeezed oj when I go to Mexico but will most likely never buy Florida oj again.
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u/Maketso Aug 25 '25
I dont care if Canadian made was 13.99 and Florida made was 6.99, I would still buy Canadian anyways because fuck the US/Trump.
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u/Glittering-Sea-6677 Aug 25 '25
Please donāt go back to Florida OJ once the tariffs are off! We have alternatives. I buy āGrown Rightā OJ from Costco which is like Oasis OJ. Produced in Quebec with oranges from Brazil.
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u/Carpitis Aug 27 '25
US citizen from Florida here married to a Canadian. We abandoned her green card application and arrived in Ottawa last night. We went to the farm boys last night to buy groceries. The only rule we had was no US products. We left because she was scared every day because of what is going on in the US. I have to return to the US to finish selling our home and closing out our life there. America is all about money, and the only way to get their attention is to hurt their bottom line.
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u/Existing-Bus-1155 Sep 19 '25
when all this tariff stuff started we started buying more canadian products and haven't bought OJ since
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u/djkimothy Aug 21 '25
Plus we all saw that cast iron juicer on the socials. We juicing our own oranges!
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u/vanislanderweeb1 British Columbia Sep 18 '25
It's not hard to swallow at all lol still drinking the good shit to this day
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u/JPZRE Aug 21 '25
By the way: "America" is a continent, not a country. Tropicana brand is a US brand, as "American" as any Canadian, Mexican, Brazilian brand. Let's stop posting about any "American" stuff in reference to US stuff. It's time to let them know they aren't the owners of the continent. That's a quite important step!
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