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That pathetic excuse amused me. There's no better time than a start-up to use U.S. manufacturing!
That's the time when the quality level of the products can be best matched to the initial production numbers, the best prices can be determined, and the most sources of US supply can be obtained. Starting overseas only complicates all of this enormously.
The fact is, once manufacturing begins overseas, it almost always stays there. Trying to move it back becomes so complicated it can destroy a small company like hers.
The United States still has plenty of clothing manufacturers, and there are plenty of fabric mills still operating to supply the raw products needed to make the clothes. Everything works faster, more simply, and more directly when a new company uses US industry from the get-go, and there is a much better opportunity for a faster return of profit when everything stays right here.
There is also a better surviveablity factor for a new company when it keeps everything right here. Once business relationships are established domestically, it's much easier to go with the ebb and flow of the interchange between the people who design the products and the people who make them.
There will always be some slack in the interchange somewhere. When a domestic business begins manufacturing overseas, it has to go there to get the slack taken out, and there is always a more difficult process in doing it that costs the new business time and money it didn't need to spend.
One thing with clothing, if the goal is to get into box stores, the extra $1 or $2 you have to pay for the base item be it a t shirt or whatever, then brand it, will put you out of the box stores game.
There is not enough profit in it for them. The item can usually still be sold competitively against imports but not in box stores. You need a different sales avenue.
Cheap/affordable and Made in USA don't usually go hand in hand. As long as Americans are Mal-Wart shopping cheapskates it will be little Chinese fingers doing that sewing!
Cheap/affordable and Made in USA don't usually go hand in hand. As long as Americans are Mal-Wart shopping cheapskates it will be little Chinese fingers doing that sewing!
It's a very basic formula.
Since the average worker is 3X more productive - and yet makes the SAME money they did when they were 1/3rd as productive, they simply cannot afford things as before (American Made).
The ONLY way for the 50% (lower 50%) to survive...and they are hardly doing so....is to have cheap goods.
Here is one basic example. In 1977 I saved up and bought my first electric Miter Box. $225.
With inflation that is $800 today. How many Americans can afford to buy a basic Miter Box for $800?
Today, a better box is $150.
It's a vicious circle. These folks saying to "buy American" are often the same people who want to do away with even the Minimum Wage...let alone are often against Universal Health Care, Unions and all the other things that might allow Americans to afford more expensive products.
The Die is Cast. None of you can do a think to move the needle. It's the equiv. of me showing a plastic bottle in the trash instead of recycling it - might make me feel good or bad, but it's certainly not changing the big picture.
This whole thing is nothing other then more Self Righteous Red Meat for Trumps Base....more claim "do as I say, not as I do, and IF you do...nothing will change anyway".
Cheap/affordable and Made in USA don't usually go hand in hand. As long as Americans are Mal-Wart shopping cheapskates it will be little Chinese fingers doing that sewing!
Affordable and USA made often go hand in hand, but very rarely in the big box models.
The consumer needs to look and they may receive. On some items, certainly not all.
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