If I had the money I would start a chain of stores called “Made in the USA” and it would sell only items made here. Of course it is difficult to do since so many sub assemblies are made elsewhere so you woul dhave to define what is made in the USA and what is not by the percentage of parts and labor in the item. Would people be willing to pay the higher prices?
ifyou carried high quality, essential items, maybe. if they were throwaway things and such, maybe ot.
Nice idea, but where would you source your stock from? All I can find that is made in USA are plastics, simple metal castings and disposable items. In short, the kind of stuff that was made in Japan sixty years ago after the war. The stuff your grandfather called “junk”.
Walmart’s founder (Sam Walton) served in the Berlin airlift. He learned inventory control and product logistics there, and used these things when he opened his retail stores.
He was quite patriotic and tried to sell all “Made in America” merchandise for awhile. But, he had to quit. The shelves were getting emptier and emptier as more and more USA factories closed down.
Alas.
Made in USA and Fair Trade Certified might be the best one could do to start such a store! Perhaps a co-op with a group of small investors could be started to get such a store off the ground...a single store front with an internet mail order business to start off with.
“If I had the money I would start a chain of stores called “Made in the USA” and it would sell only items made here”...
Brick and mortar store in here in Western NY:
http://www.madeinamericastore.com/
I’ll still pay more for USA made...I wish a national chain store would stock a good selection of USA made clothing. Online seems like it.