topic Re: Made In America in Suggestion Box

Made In America

Catastrophe — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:30:03 GMT

Would like QVC to have a Made In America Forum. I put in Made in America and what came up was very few items that were Made in America and the majority was Imported. What a big disappointment.... What a Shame.

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IMW — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:20:32 GMT

Years ago George Simonton and Susan Graver would announce when a garment was made in the USA.

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Miss Pepsi — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:04:49 GMT

Everyone wants things Made in America until they see the price. I have heard this argument many times but its pricey. People don't want to pay that price for American made items

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Sunshine Kate — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:10:01 GMT

Many years ago items were made in America. Great quality and price.

It can happen and I'm sure it will. The sooner the better.

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Tori3569 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:40:29 GMT

@Sunshine Kate wrote:
Many years ago items were made in America. Great quality and price.

It can happen and I'm sure it will. The sooner the better.

Those were the days that my grandmother and then my mother were seamstresses making dresses and other women's clothing.

The chance to go back to that is non existent. They were paid very little (before minimum wage regulations) and worked in poor conditions (led to unionization).

These are not times when any of that would be tolerated. We also have very few facilities at which to manufacture goods and not as many people willing to do these jobs without high compensation. All of this adds up to exorbitant prices.

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tansy — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:48:27 GMT

Let's say an item is fully made in America. We'd have to manufacture the fabric, thread, buttons, zippers, the machinery and so on. We would need workers to do drudge work. I don't see that happening. Just like American workers cannot hack agricultural jobs.

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deeva — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:19:50 GMT

I can't see many people in their 20's and 30's hunched over a sewing machine or large machinery for eight hours a day.

It's too easy to make money on social media.

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febe1 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:49:11 GMT

With A1 breathing down our backs, skilled workers are going to be the ones holding the aces!

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We rescue cats — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:11:38 GMT

I cannot imagine that happening on Q, I think the majority of the vendors carry and sell foreign mde products. I have about a half dozen made in the USA websites saved to my computer but no way to get them posted here, but if you do a search for Authenticity50 it should give you a great start.

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AuntG — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:28:51 GMT

Before Christmas, ABC news did a made in America story every night. I was impressed with many of the featured products. I bet national attention really helped the bottom lineof those companies.

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Tori3569 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:29:08 GMT

@AuntG wrote:
Before Christmas, ABC news did a made in America story every night. I was impressed with many of the featured products. I bet national attention really helped the bottom lineof those companies.

Those were great stories. I checked out every company featured via their websites. I'm sure the publicity helped them. The only issue is that they were small companies and it took forever to get what I ordered from the Chocolate Pizza co. Shipping was high too, but it was a great product once it got here.

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Tinkrbl44 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:18:30 GMT

@AuntG wrote:
Before Christmas, ABC news did a made in America story every night. I was impressed with many of the featured products. I bet national attention really helped the bottom lineof those companies.

@AuntG

I LOVE those Made in America shows they do every December. It really made me so proud.

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geezerette — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:50:52 GMT

There is still a lot of manufacturing done in this country.

But most items are not what you're going to see on QVC.

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Caaareful Shopper — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:17:27 GMT

Manufacturing jobs?? The U.S. lost more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs in 2025.

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Catastrophe — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:59:38 GMT

"DOW is 50K"

"Gas prices are down"

"Jobs are up"

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CalminHeart — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:23:32 GMT

The U.S. hasn't been a manufacturing country since the mid 1900s. And we won't become one until the feds severely penalize and tax corporations that outsource and make the cost of imported products to build less expensive.

If the U.S. wants other countries to buy from us, we have to buy from them. That's not what's happening right now.

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CalminHeart — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:25:46 GMT

@Catastrophe wrote:
"DOW is 50K"
"Gas prices are down"
"Jobs are up"

And I have some ocean-front property for sale in South Dakota.

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They CallMe MRWILKES — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:05:44 GMT

There will never, ever be large scale mass garment manufacturing in the United States again.

There are some denim manufacturers domestically, but the operations are possible only due to the owners, overseas production which subsidizes the American facility. Costs incurred are just too high to price the garment at a competitive price.

Sure, there is small batch, specialty production here, but nothing large-scale which most retailers would require.

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Sooner — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:43:34 GMT

@They CallMe MRWILKES wrote:
There will never, ever be large scale mass garment manufacturing in the United States again.

There are some denim manufacturers domestically, but the operations are possible only due to the owners, overseas production which subsidizes the American facility. Costs incurred are just too high to price the garment at a competitive price.

Sure, there is small batch, specialty production here, but nothing large-scale which most retailers would require.

@They CallMe MRWILKES I'm glad not everyone is so quick to sell America short. There is no reason why we can't have large-scale manufacturing in this country. We have the resources, the people, and the technical knowledge to do so much more than we have been doing. It's time to bring back some decent jobs so more people who want and need to work can make a living.

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Tinkrbl44 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:14:19 GMT

@Caaareful Shopper wrote:
Manufacturing jobs?? The U.S. lost more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs in 2025.

@Caaareful Shopper @Sunshine Kate

Another constant problem is that many manufacturing jobs are very hard to fill and keep filled. People quit because they don't want to work that hard.

Question .... Who in their right mind would want their grandchild to grow up and spend years working in a factory?

No one I know.