Posted on 04/29/2025 7:30:37 AM PDT by ransomnote
As the single largest player in the ecommerce industry, Amazon generates between 10% and 15% of global online sales. In its home market, the US ecommerce giant makes up to 40% of total ecommerce sales and generates the highest revenue in three out of four major product categories, outperforming competitors by a large margin. But ironically, while Amazon is seen as emblematic of American success in ecommerce, Chinese products are the backbone of its marketplace.
According to data presented by AltIndex.com, more than 70% of all products sold on Amazon are made in China.
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Thanks ‘note.
I can virtue signal and say that I have never bought anything from Amazon. They seem like a monopoly. I buy junk from eBay who are probably just as big of liberal goons. And my boycott of Target goes on to infinity…
Maybe we should CELEBRATE if Amazon goes down. After all isn’t the owner a BILLIONAIRE? ACCORDING TO DEMS WE WANT ALL HIS MONEY. Of course there will be no more Amazon but Dems just want the billionaires $.
Walmart is even worse.
I would guess 90% of products sold at Walmart’s is non-American made.
Bet 100% of Amazon Branded Products are made in China.....
Sam Walton, the founder of WalMart, saw the rise of imported merchandise. He ordered his stores to stock USA merchandise. The stores launched a major advertising campaign that they were stocking American goods. Unfortunately, this led to many empty shelves. Because so much USA manufacturing (and jobs) had already been exported to Communist China and elsewhere. America simply had stopped making lots of things.
WalMart had to give up its Buy-American campaign.
Amazon is a CCP storefront. By design.
I would not expect any to be made in the US, as well.
Perhaps Amazon should have been named The North Pacific Gyre.
Not as catchy but more accurate.
70-80 percent
Walmart sources an estimated 70-80 percent of its goods from Chinese factories12345. The company has over 20,000 Chinese suppliers and has a global sourcing headquarters in Shenzhen, China1. In some product categories, like furniture and household goods, over 95 percent of Walmart's suppliers are Chinese3.
Many of the “made in USA” products are really made in China, but the last trivial part of production was in the U.S., such as final packaging.
Amazon is a Chinese flea market. And Amazon does not care about all the fraud as long as buyers are happy and it does not get in the press.
THe jig is up.
I doubt the trade war with China will last longer than did Covid pandemic and global trade shutdown.
In the meantime, people can buy off eBay or go to a thrift or antique store. Think about how much stuff people have in storage units that could be resold.
The idea is to realign US supply chains away from China. We can’t build up the CCP and Chinese army by buying their toys and tee shirts.
Already Apple is using this time to move iPhones assembly to India.
And more production is coming back domestically every day.
EBay is a wide variety of sellers all over the US, many of them selling out of their garage or a shack in the back yard. I’m sure their political views range all over the spectrum, although they’re 100% opposed to VERO abuse.
Aaaaaan, let’s not act like a progressive and claim that this means Amazon makes this stuff in China.
No, the retailers who use the Amazon platform make the stuff in China. Ever watched episodes of “SharkTank”? Every product pushed to them meets with comments about switching production to China. Statements about “Made in America” is met with sneers.
Cut back on shopping on line. Go in person to a local store and make a few purchases that way. If we all cut back even a little, Amazon will hurt alot!
I rarely buy online, if I can’t touch it, I don’t buy it. This trend of buying cars online without driving them is weird as well.
> … WalMart had to give up its Buy-American campaign. <
I remember those days. And I have some sympathy for WalMart and Amazon. If either company adopted a Buy-American policy, they’d be immediately undercut by their competitors and quickly go out of business.
This is a serious problem. But the ultimate blame goes not to companies, but to our own government. America’s great industrial base was destroyed by the fools and traitors in DC.
Tariffs + lower taxes + less regulation might yet bring it back.
Trump has the right idea. But will Congress cooperate?
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