How about a "Made in the USA" store?

Self | Dec 25, 2001 | Billy_bob_bob

[Billy_bob_bob]

I posted this on another thread, and decided this is too good of an idea to let sit there. Here it is pretty much as originally posted.

How about a whole new idea for retail, the department store that sells ONLY goods made in the USA (and I mean the lower 48 plus Alaska and Hawaii, none of this "free trade zone" horsepucky). Every product sold there should have a tag on it showing what state it was made in and the name of the company that made it. Maybe even put up displays showing the people who worked on the products being sold. Give the people buying the products a sense of where they came from and why they should care.

I think a store like this could have a lot of appeal for a lot of people. I would like to think that a store like this could open up some opportunities for more American based businesses as well, giving them a retail outlet where their products have a major advantage over products made in other countries. Let the traitors shop at China-Mart, the rest of us could buy our goods at the "Made in the USA" store!

I like this idea a lot. Anybody out there with retail experience who knows how to make this work? I could be made very interested in investing in something like this if I thought there was a good management team willing to take it on.

[expose]

click on this and listen to how you lost "Made in the USA"

[F.J. Mitchell]

I smell a successful venture here-I would buy everything available at such a Mart, even at considerably higher prices, rather than at places that aid and abet China's invasion of our market with cut rate goods made by slaves.

I want some of that stock too, real early on.

[KEVLAR]

I agree, I look at the labels of everything I buy, hard to find the US goods. The stuff from china does not hold up very well.

[Skip Ripley]

The choice has been made as it has been for centuries. Cheaper goods of a reasonably good quality will out sell their higher priced competition even if the higher priced item is better produced.

I have no quarrel with the concept you propse. I doubt that I would buy anything solely or even chiefly because it's made domestically, but if enough people out there are, why not give it a try.

[expose]

listen to the truth why you don't have many "Made in the USA"

[Jaidyn]

Walmart got in trouble more than once because of their advertising *made in the USA*. I believe that a component must be at least 77% USA to be considered made in America. For instance, if a bicycle uses Shimano gears or brakes, it can still be considered made in USA so long as the rest of the parts are made here. There are lots of loopholes. Walmart used them after Sam Walton died. Is there anything 100% made in USA? If so, I would pay more, too. In the end, I would be paying less if others felt like most of us here.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Thanks for your support. What is needed now is some people who have high level experience in the world of retail to start making useful suggestions about how to get something like this off of the ground. I can put some money up, but only a tiny fraction of what something like this would require. Plus I'm not sure if my area would be the best to start something like this off in, although it could be perfect, I just don't know. What I know about the day to day details of a serious retail operation you could poke in your eye and not feel. I just know in my gut that this is an idea that is at least worth serious consideration by people with serious intent and ability.

[texson66]

Not a bad idea. I would recommend that in addition to the "Made in the USA" stores that all major retailers would have to create a section of their store (in some cases, all) that indicated IMPORTED GOODS ONLY ARE SOLD IN THIS SECTION.

I know labels usually have a nation of origin, but by isolating the foreign goods into a special section, shoppers might (dont hold your breath) have second thoughts and buy American.

[expose]

CHINA like to sell this

to view the vide

[PatrioticAmerican]

" The American worker will have to compete with the rest of the world. "

So, you are willing to work for 50 cents a day alongside you children working 14 hour days and live in the mud?

[Maurice Tift]

I think we need to do some things to increase manufacturing in the USA: eliminating not only the corporate income tax, but the entire income tax system. This, of course, would include the tax on capital gains. We could also eliminate the minimum wage. Tort reform is also extremely important. The fear of frivolous lawsuits and tremendous court awards frightens many potential corporations. Productivity and innovation suffer terribly.

[expose]

One thing people forget is thatInternational store are Governemt or State OWN

[F.J. Mitchell]

# 10: BUMP! Not # 10 in the sense used since the end of WWII by the Japenese to mean bad- but # 10 the response.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Indeed, #10 is #1!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[box221]

The first 150 years of this nation 90% of the consumer products were made in USA which was controled by government regulations and tariffs with no income tax. Now approximately 50% of consumer products are imported with a 300 billion trade imbalance.

[Cobra64]

No, believe it or not, there are still many things made in this country. I'm sure of it. Really I am.

Vermont maple syrup is probably a sure bet.

[expose]

Now approximately 50% of consumer products are imported

by government or the state own!!

[expose]

the steel industry

kiss it goodbuy

[expose]

Here is my question. Under "Free Trade", it is my perception that foreign entities can ship anything to us, with no tariffs, but our access to their markets is limited. Is my perception correct or not?

GOVERMENT OWN!!