Waiting for the Wal-Mart bashers to chime in, as if W-M is the only outlet for Chinese products.
Many, many years ago, Wal-Mart sold (or tried to sell) only American-made products. It was, in fact, one of their advertising points. But then they realized that it didn't make sense to offer, say, American-made brooms at $10 each when their competitors had Chinese-made ones for $3 each.
So I don't blame Wal-mart one bit. I blame the government, and, to a lesser extent, the over-reaching unions.
all in all, walmart bashers are an ignorant lot.
Walmart is the best retail corporation on the planet. Those that even measure up do so having used strategies and operations developed at walmart.
the walmart concept transformed retail sales from the inefficiencies and costly operations of shops and obsolete distribution methods. China and other backward third world countries became labor subcontractors that allowed American companies to have products produced and salable.
the ignorant walmart bashers have never actually looked at the diversity of countries supplying merchandise that becomes walmart inventory. There are several including some Europeans. The walmart bashers can’t grasp the fact that there is a global economy operating at levels of mega companies and at levels of small companies.
A small Hong Kong company selling wash bottles used by lots of companies including mine, but especially tattoo artists can advertise on Ebay, ship free by mail and make delivery within one week. Payment by Paypal offers a secure international payment option never before possible. There is no American source of that product.
There is a vast difference between the dreaded “Globalist” spectre that is mostly a mental condition and trade that takes place between unnumbered companies and individuals hourly on a truly global basis. A person in a remote village of Iceland or papua new guina can buy the wash bottles the same as I can in the USA