Wal-Mart

What percentage of goods sold at Wal-Mart are made in China? My guess is that a it is a large percentage.

I think wal-mart should include a picture of Chairman Mou, centered between the Wal /and/ Mart on all their signs!

[Kuan]

10 percent of all Chinese exports to America go to Walmart.

[Hogweed]

Originally Posted by BusyBenz

What percentage of goods sold at Wal-Mart are made in China? My guess is that a it is a large percentage.

I think wal-mart should include a picture of Chairman Mou, centered between the Wal /and/ Mart on all their signs!

they can change the name to Mao-mart

[raymr]

Wal-Mart is the American way.

It's equally American to boycott their goods.

If you can afford not to shop there, don't give them your business.

[83mercedes]

China's shi#*y products are not all that is delivered to America...every year they have certain very powerful winds which stir up immense clouds of pollutants and toxic dust from their rapidly developing industries into the atmosphere--so large, in fact, that they are visible from space and span the entire Pacific Ocean.

In a few more years these toxic clouds will begin reaching the Western seaboard. China also represents the largest military threat to us, with a standing army at least 10 times larger than our own, a larger air force with basically equal fighters, and the capacity to conscript incalculably more manpower.

And with almost our entire military deployed overseas, they could waltz right in.

China sucks.

[bobbyv]

Originally Posted by Hogweed

they can change the name to Mao-mart

... or ...

the Great WallMart of China ...

[Azimyth]

I remember when Walmart boasted of it's American made product inventory. That was when Sam was still at the helm. Now the bean counters are in charge......actually, we are in charge, aren't we?

[raymr]

Originally Posted by Azimyth

I remember when Walmart boasted of it's American made product inventory. That was when Sam was still at the helm. Now the bean counters are in charge......actually, we are in charge, aren't we?

Yep, its our cheap asses that drool over $1 dish towels and $18 coffee tables. We get what we pay for, in so many ways.

[MTI]

Haven't you figured it out . . . they have shared goals . . . world domination.

[aklim]

Originally Posted by Azimyth

I remember when Walmart boasted of it's American made product inventory. That was when Sam was still at the helm. Now the bean counters are in charge......actually, we are in charge, aren't we?

No, we are in charge. We told Wal*Mart what to buy and sell to us. If we were willing to spend more money buying US products, you can bet Wal*Mart would sell them.

Has anyone considered the idea that the reason that we buy stuff from China is because they make it cheaper and are better at it than we are? If I send $100 to china for a set of clothes which is the most amount of clothes that I can get for $100 and the guy making the clothes sends me back $100 dollars for accounting services which is the most/best amount of accounting services for $100 we are both better off than me making my own clothes and him doing his own accounting. The fact that joe is up the road making half the clothes for twice the cost shouldn't dissuade me from getting the best deal. Joe can find something that he is better at or where his services are more needed. Now I realize that with a lot of developing countries you might be protesting the country itself but from a purely economic view you are better off with competition.

In a perfectly competitive and open market each country would produce that which they are most efficient or capable of producing which would make everyone richer. The question is what is it in the good ol USA of A that we produce more efficiently than any other country? Cheap plastic widgets or stuff requiring large amounts of unskilled labor are not one of those things apparently.