Sharpie Found a Way to Make Pens More Cheaply—By Manufacturing Them in the U.S.

MSN ^ | 10/5/25 | staff

[CFW]

Another company increasing its footprint in the good ole US of A.

[Dr. Sivana]

Newell also owns Rubbermaid, whose products are (as far as I know) still largely made in the US.

[Colt1851Navy]

The news also on the MSN site of the Sharpie story has the usual Commie/Lib/ultra-leftist/super anti Trump/boys in girl’s bathroom bent.

[SaxxonWoods]

Who wrote that headline? “More Cheaply”? How about “less expensive?”

[GingisK]

Headlines do leave us constantly shaking our heads in sorrow.

[VTenigma]

More economically.

[Bayard]

Not just the normal costs of business, there’s a whole lot of other considerations when dealing with a communist country.

[gundog]

[FamiliarFace]

My mom taught me that cheap things were usually poorly made and might not last very long.

[Red Badger]

Not very Sharp are they?...........

[Ezekiel]

By Manufacturing Them in the U.S.

There's also the subliminal messaging aspect.

[Sicvee]

My complaints about Sharpies is that they are
1. price controlled, rarely discounted
2. precisely engineered so that you have to forcibly replace the cap, otherwise it falls off and ruins your shirt or pants pockets
3. also designed to dry up quickly if left exposed, making it unusable, mostly discarded before the ink is exhausted

[Sicvee]

My complaints about Sharpies is that they are
1. price controlled, rarely discounted
2. precisely engineered so that you have to forcibly replace the cap, otherwise it falls off and ruins your shirt or pants pockets
3. also designed to dry up quickly if left exposed, making it unusable, mostly discarded before the ink is exhausted

[packagingguy]

I bought stock in Newell Brands a few months back, so this is good.

[j.havenfarm]

Well, you still need and adverb, so “less expensively.”

[drSteve78]

Now that’s better than “Kilroy was here” or “Mr Magoo”

[rdcbn1]

The reality is that US manufacturing was off shored largely because government over regulation, government mandated destructive workplace laws and out of control, adversarial union obstruction, extortion, low productivity and shoddy quality made US manufacturing a losing proposition.

At the same time, the production facilities from massive US factory expansion from the WWII and 1950s economic booms were becoming obsolectnt and worn out by the 1980s and required major capitol reinvestment's in modernization.

US companies were facing the need for massive capitol reinvestment's in their manufacturing base.

The costs of doing so were astronomically inflated due to insane government over regulation regulation.

After all the costs were totaled comply with expensive and increasingly restrictive government employment mandates and impossible to deal with labor unions who extorted maximum wages and benefits while openly encouraging staggering low productivity, an adversarial and obstructive shop floor environment , encouraged labor strife and labor strikes that shut down production all while encouraging low quality, shoddy production management US manufacturing became a losing preposition.

Management just threw in the towel and concluded that offshoring manufacturing was only way to survive .

And they were right.

As a result, US manufacturing companies used their reinvestment capitol to build factories over seas where they did not have to deal with insane government regulations, draconian and destructive environmental laws, footing costs to subsidize socialization of America, dealing with massive, limitless legal liabilities in our litigious society and having their business held hostage to destructive and extortionate Labor Unions.

US manufacturing companies did not exit the US primarily for low cost production - they were driven offshore to survive.

[central_va]

A pack of lies. Show us one manufacturer that was losing money, on the verge of bankruptcy and was saved by offshoring. There may be some but I don’t know of any.

Your fairy tale is globalist propaganda.

[central_va]

Do you believe in the tooth fairy too? Why not move to China where you belong.

[NorthMountain]

My main complaints about Sharpies are:
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