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Will 1,127 deaths move the needle for U.S. shoppers?
Topic Started: May 17, 2013, 7:45 am (620 Views)
Blessedx4
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Will 1,127 deaths move the needle for U.S. shoppers?
Calum MacLeod , USA TODAY4:08 p.m. EDT May 13, 2
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The garment workers in Third World countries take enormous risks and desperate measures to earn a living in Bangladeshi-owned companies that produce clothing for Western retailers.

At the end of this global production line stand millions of American shoppers whose favorite companies and brands — think Benetton, The Children's Place, Gap, J.C. Penney, Mango, Target and Sears — use Bangladesh as a launching pad for the goods consumers crave.
To read more > http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/05/16/bangladesh-collapse-labor-garment-factories/2156413/
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Well, I'd be happy to keep my money in the U.S., buying U.S.-made goods, but I can't go to the store and find U.S.-made women's blouses, and rarely can I find pants. :(:
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Totally agree Barb.
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barb43
May 17, 2013, 7:46 pm
Well, I'd be happy to keep my money in the U.S., buying U.S.-made goods, but I can't go to the store and find U.S.-made women's blouses, and rarely can I find pants. :(:
Yup...
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Is any kind of clothing made in the USA? Good luck with that. I live one town over from the former shoe capital of the USA. There were dozens of shoe factories there as recently as WW2. Now there are none. Clothing is such a cut-throat business that you either have your goods produced in sweat shops or you go bankrupt. I don't know the solution for that. I do know this, though, the typical Walmart shopper is not going to pay a couple of bucks more for USA made goods. NOTE: I wrote "typical" shopper which does not include those few who actually have a social conscience and sufficient money to act on it.
Edited by Blackjack, May 18, 2013, 5:45 am.
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I used to work at Arrow Shirt company back in the late 70's early 80's and even then they were starting to get cloth made in China to process (cut) for shirts. We did not sow but cut the cloth for the various sewing factories. I don't even know if American made Arrow Shirts even exist anymore. But I know they were well made shirts back then.

What's frustrating for me (and evidently everyone else) about the article is this - of course I'd buy Made in America! but don't have that choice anymore. I want to see those jobs come back over here. I've even tried to find websites that named companies that still made here.

I do know you can't look at the name and just assume they're made overseas - Honda's, Toyotas, Hyndai's (sp?) and Mercedes are made here in Alabama. These employ thousands of Alabamians. Also Wrangler Jeans- I pass by that plant every time I go see my son. The plant was nearly destroyed with the town of Hackelberg in the big April 27 tornadoes a few years back.

I'd love to have a website available that lets me know what other companies are here and employ Americans. I'd shop those companies. (If anyone knows of such a site pm me and let me know :lol )
Edited by Blessedx4, May 18, 2013, 8:14 am.
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btw Kia has a plant in Georgia. It was a boom for LaGrange (my favorite all time fishing town) Meanwhile the GM plant near Atlanta is probably shut down again. It stayed shut down when we lived over there..
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