WalMart was late to the party, but caught on quickly. Look at the actual history of trade with modern China. It is companies that wanted to sell products to Americans through a smart retailer.
You can't blame WalMart, FRiend, for plain old bizness sense!
My brother is a RadioShack Franchisee. Look at their shelves sometimes! He is USAF retired!
Oh, I can indeed blame WalMart, Sears, Penny's, Radio Shack, etc.
It is the retailers who choose to buy from China. We as customers were not clamoring for poorly manufactured products just so retailers could have a higher margin.
You can't fool me, sonny. I used to buy and use the products made here in the 1960s and on. They were made very well. I can show you tools I bought in the 1970s that would make you cry with envy. I can show you the same tool made today that makes me cry over the loss of quality and functionality.
I can clearly remember the disappearance of quality products without me asking for the cheap shit. I can clearly remember having been left with no choice over quality. Furthermore, I used to work for a company that supplied WalMart with product. We knew the register price and we certainly knew our costs. I can assure that WalMart's margin is obscene. I can also assure you that their erosion of our margin killed my company. It is easy to extrapolate that to all of the other companies that went out of business.
Are you the latest WalMart shill, come to defend their, ahem, honor?
If so, you must be really blissful.