Re: Where products are made!

kivah · ‎03-11-2010

@furbabylover wrote:
With all the strange packages being shipped to the US unsolicited right now from China, (like the seed packets, dirty socks, sunglasses, etc.), it highlights the importance of identifying the source country. In any case, I am making a concerted effort to buy American whenever possible, and I avoid Chinese products. My reason is that I want to see manufacturing jobs return to the US and I, like millions of other Americans, are now making a point of it. The other factor is that Chinese products have historically been of poor quality, not to mention often contaminated with inferior or dangerous components (like an ongoing issue with melamine found in dog food). QVC should quit disguising the identity of their products with the vague term "imported".

That's why the country of origin is not listed.

Don't forget all the toxic products we received from China!!!!

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

What get me is thehypocrisy when it comes to this issue. If you boycott China you don't go to Walmart, Target and the erest. Do you think you will ever change anything by doing business with those places, and just not buying chinese made items in their stores? Walmart could care less. They depend on people willing to buy Made in China items to save a couple dollars. Thats what it comes down to. People are willing to let American made items go if they save money

China owns half the business and property in US our county has borrowed from them. If you want to make a differance, do something and stand by your words. By the way, in the early 1990's Walmart started taking business and building factories overseas. Any vendor who didnt follow suit, was dropped. The went to every busness in our little town and lowered their price to put small business out of business. It worked. We can't pay wages here and sell at those prices, until Americans are willing to pay for what they get.

since this happened in out town back then I have never set foot in two of these stores. I buy Northern American, or from a few European countries. I buy sustainable mostly. It is sooo hard sometimes, but I have done it.

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

Phantom41 · ‎03-19-2010

@patbz wrote:
For most things I really don't care from where it's manufactured. I will go along with knowing origin of meds, cosmetics and food but disagree about lumping everything from China "is bad or shoddy". Many seriously high end brands are also made there ( you would be very surprised) and I have no problem. I just concentrate on brands and vendors I trust. Would you rather that the hoards of Chinese be unemployed and living in miserable conditions? That would affect us in geopolitics

I'm kinda thinking that hoards of Americans (me included) are unemployed because of China so I can't muster up a whole lot of sympathy.