A small business owner in Nova Scotia claims that tensions with the United States are causing more headache because its customers refuse to buy American products.
Brooklyn Audio sells high -end stereo equipment in Dartmouth, NS, and is one of the only stores that sells these items in the Halifax region.
The owner Jody Crane says that his customers do not care if there are prices on the products are not. They just don’t want it because of their link with the United States.
“It left such a bad taste in the mouth (s) of people with what is happening. So everyone looks at all other choices that Americans make, which is regrettable because there are a lot of good products,” said Crane.
He said that its distributors have also taken measures to absorb 10% of the reciprocal prices imposed by Canada on certain American electronics.
Crane gets in his Enterprises Tri-Cell products, an Ontario-based audio distributor.
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A representative of the company, David Geist, says that they had to move away from certain American manufacturers, which is regrettable because they have worked with some of them for almost 30 years.
But its American partners are empathic, says Geist.
“Many of our manufacturers that we work in the United States, they see what is going on and they understand why we are pivot,” he said.
“They will not be upset. They understand. They realize that they know that this is what we are going to do. ”
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