Speaking of Wal-Mart, I was shopping for a beer cooler for the weekend. Wal-Mart has them, and they are made in the U.S.A.
They’ve been branded “Walmart” since 2008, 1rudeboy.
Good for you, scouring out the domestic merchandise in a veritable sea of Chinese plastic.
I’m shocked. In a good way, of course, but ... shocked.
My US mfg of raw products that we use to create ours has lost 80% of their business. That 80% was Walmart. Of 250 people they are down to 40. All of it went to a Chinese company. But my main point is that 10% of what we do is made in China simply because no US companies make the product anymore. Can’t compete with a country that can produce at 1/10th the price. Anyway the Chinese companies now leave these items blank as to where they are made. We don’t but if we wanted to we could put Made in USA on every bit of it.
As an aside I tried years ago to teach my raw products mfg how to beat the Chinese or any cheap labor country but obviously it fell on deaf ears. We are growing at 70% this year while they fell 80% and we esentially do the same thing. So many of your points are valid because it’s not Walmarts fault that they can buy the exact same thing in China for 1/10th. Our job in America is to make things the Chinese cannot. Quality.