Maple Scan: Canadian Product Identification App

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Looking to identify and shop Canadian? There’s an app for that

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Maple Scan helps shoppers identify Canadian products by analyzing photos of products to provide details about where they were made and whether they meet government criteria for being labelled “product of Canada ” or “made in Canada ’s” The app joins a growing group of services that have cropped up in a matter of weeks with one goal: helping people support homegrown brands.

Buy Beaver app aims to help shoppers sort through confusion by relying on crowdsourcing.

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. CEO Per Bank said Friday that his grocery chains noticed a 7.5 per cent increase in sales of products prepared in Canada after the tariff spat intensified. That increase reached double digits last week and is particularly pronounced in the dairy and frozen food categories, he wrote on LinkedIn . While it’s unclear if the apps contributed to such sales, Ivanov is just pleased to see people’s interest in buying Canadian climbing. “It’s been wonderful and I am just so excited that this is something that people are finding helpful,” he said..

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