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Also cost-effectiveness can't include convenience. A consumer's time is not so valuable that he must go to one giant store to buy everything made in China. If they do that (e.g. spur of the moment Walmart TV purchase) they end up with low quality items which negate any savings.

Yeah. That's why Wal-Mart's the largest retailer on the face of the earth: they sell nothing but cheap junk.

Never mind that they sell the same thing Target, and Costco, and other retailers sell. They just sell it for less.

In your world, American consumers are all stupid, and getting taken to the cleaners by Wal-Mart.

Stupid or thoughtless, doesn't really matter. The fact is there are American made TV's contrary to the theoreticians on this thread. If that poster could not find information that took me 2 seconds to find with Google, then they are stupid. If they buy a TV at WalMart because it's cheap and convenient, then they are stupid because it will probably break sooner than any other TV they could purchase.