Made in USA , 2010

[vontar]

Vontar just be glad them made in China US flags did nothave 57 stars on them.

did you try the flag store down by Fountain City? For the life of me I can recall the street name. It runs parallel to I640.

No, I was living in Clairfield TN at the time and Lafollette was about as far south as I was driving regularly at the time.

I didn't drive all over Hell and Creation but the places I did look, I kept finding china wrote on them and said the hell with it.

[Guest 70below]

substitute pretty much any variety store for Walmart in my post and the results will be the same.

Tons of jobs happen because we buy things.

I agree........but the true key "jobs come if we buy things", it has nothing to do with it being a Walmart. We won't have any more jobs if I buy a chinese item at the Five and Dime or at Walmart, but if I can support a small business selling american made items for roughly the same price, I'd do it every time. If Walmart even chose to sell more American items, I would buy more often from them because that puts more of the money back into american hands.

I'll buy my groceries at Ingles until then.

[Mike.357]

I can support a small business selling american made items for roughly the same price, I'd do it every time

were is theses place?

[Guest 1817ak47]

we often hold out on things we are looking to purchase till we find us made, tough we sometimes pay a little more, but that is because we aren't supporting near slave labor conditions and rates

[Guest 70below]

were is theses place?

My point exactly.........they are few and far between these days.....in part because we've sold our souls for cheap chinese crap, and because multinational corporations are killing small business.

[strickj]

I agree........but the true key "jobs come if we buy things", it has nothing to do with it being a Walmart. We won't have any more jobs if I buy a chinese item at the Five and Dime or at Walmart, but if I can support a small business selling american made items for roughly the same price, I'd do it every time. If Walmart even chose to sell more American items, I would buy more often from them because that puts more of the money back into american hands.

I'll buy my groceries at Ingles until then.

It's a myth that everything WM sells is foreign made.

In fact, everything they sell comes from the same places your Mom & Pop store buys from.

[Guest 70below]

I never said that "everything" they sell is foreign made, nor that everything you get at a mom and pop is American made. I would still buy from a mom and pop before a huge corporation. Do you believe that volume of sales will significantly decrease buying from a mom and pop vs wally world? If everyone is buying the same stuff, the same volume will be there, therefore there will be the same need for secondary employment in transporting and importing all those items.

I would love to see more homegrown products in stores, because I would much rather the money stay at home than fuel red china.........whats wrong with that? I'm not advocating getting rid of free capitalism, simply changing the way we think and shop to help our neighbor, by purchasing products he or she makes. Didn't realize that so many don't have an interest in that. Buy as you wish, I'm certainly not going to stop you.

[Guest 1817ak47]

It's a myth that everything WM sells is foreign made.

In fact, everything they sell comes from the same places your Mom & Pop store buys from.

almost everything walmart sells is foreign, I have found a few thi% of totoal imtems if that.

BTW shoes noew balance from what i coulod research is the only us assembled shoe, yes assembled, not 100% made here

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Sometimes I think we must be related....lol.

FWIW, I can't remember the last 100% American thing I purchased(outside of gun stuff) and it's kind of a pain to root out what's 100% in material and labor. Food alone doesn't entirely qualify anymore either. Look at fruits, veggies and frozen/bottle juices especially.

I like making stuff and it seems a shame not more stuff is made here. There is a theory that if energy prices really do continue to increase-- That if new energy tech doesn't pull a rabbit out of the hat pretty soon-- Transportation costs will eventually rise to the level that local production will become cheaper than imports. I think in the old days, one reason every little burg seemed to have its own coca-cola bottling plant or brewery or sawmill-- It was cheaper to manufacture locally than to ship long distance.

Its tough. If a businessman has a lot of money invested and the choice is to either export the jobs or go bankrupt, then it doesn't seem reasonable to insist that folks go bankrupt just to prove a point. What good does that do? On the other hand, sometimes it seems just plain laziness. Maybe greed sometimes, but perhaps laziness more than greed.

Long ago I was partner in a small electronics firm. I found local CNC tinshops that could make the chassis and do a fine job of powdercoat at decent enough prices. Wanted to buy a small wave solder machine and hire a couple of locals to stuff circuit boards. But the partner with the money didn't want to spend a lot of time actually running a small manufacturing biz, so we ended up getting the boxes made in Taiwan. It wasn't a big biz, but steady enough to feed a couple of people.

After a few years, the Taiwan guys started selling our boxes to USA competitors cheaper than they were selling to us. We didn't have enough money for international lawsuits. Biz went under. I kinda think that if we'd made the boxes locally, then the Taiwan guys would have never noticed our niche market, and if they had noticed the market, at least they would have had to draw up their own circuit board layouts. No way to know though. Might have got creamed anyway. Just seemed that we paid the Taiwan guys for tooling up, financing our own doom.

But there is nothing basically wrong with lots of international trade. You might be more reluctant to go to war with another nation if they are a real good customer. If our govt wouldn't sell so many T Bills, the Chinese would have to buy more USA products. Chinese are restricted about buying certain kinds of USA industries, so their options of what to do with all those dollars are rather limited. If it wasn't so easy to plow the bucks into T Bills, then they would probably have to eventually exchange the dollars for USA-made goods. Trade would be just great if it were balanced.

I program with a small Canadian software company. I'm a scab who is stealing a Canadian job away from some deserving canuck! The company sells a lot into the USA, so am also a traitor who is helping Canada in its evil plan of galactic economic domination!

[Mike.357]

what Mom and Pop variety store is there anywhere near where I live in Knox county?

Are there any anywhere in the greater Knoxville area at all?

[daddyo]

This is what Strel makes me think of:

Now are the foxes!!!

That's for you to know and me to find out!!!