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Re: Cost of materials vs cost of manufacturing
Posted by HudonValleySaabGuy [Email] (more from HudonValleySaabGuy) on Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:13:10
In Reply to: Cost of materials vs cost of manufacturing, dmz789qqq, Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:19:58
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Home Depot, Wal Mart, and other big box retailers are guilty of pushing US manufacturing off shore. They asked their suppliers to cut their cost, and the weight, and subsequently all the quality was taken out, and the material was reduced, and that plant in Indiana that made the watering can was shuttered. Now you have a contract manufacturer in China making a plastic watering can for $2 per piece, and your local Big Box store retailing it for $19.99.
I would by US made for US quality...unfortunately there's very few folks in the US that make this kind of stuff anymore (tools, Garden equipment, televisions, small appliances, etc etc). Where are we as a country if we can't even make things anymore? Instead we have the founders of Facebook creating a website and IPO'ing it for $100 billion and they are lauded as heros. Is it me or am I the only one that things something is wrong with this picture?
I have often thought there is an small business niche waiting to be tapped - American Made Quality...American Vintage. You want that old heavy duty watering can? I have it. Old craftman hand tools, the kind that Sears used to sell in the 60s and 70s made or iron? Got that too...Anyone for a nice old AM-FM radio, Zenith, proudly made in Illinois, and still sounds brand new even though its 40 years old. Unfortunately I'd have to be scouring every yard and estate sale over town to find enough inventory!
Serisouly though, whatever happened to "make it do, use it up, throw it out, or do without?"
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Posts in this Thread:
- Watering can - don't make em like they used to..., GFW3pedals , Fri, 13 Jul 2012 06:13:39
- Dramm brand, vvk, Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:46:07
- Re: Watering can - don't make em like they used to..., TML , Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:09:18
- Re: don't make em like they used to..., Noel, Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:01:19
- I can se it now:, Norm95, Fri, 13 Jul 2012 06:53:44
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