Comments on: Items in Wal Mart

By: james

james — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:49:11 +0000

nErD

By: farrr

farrr — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:41:58 +0000

what’s even more stupid is how despite how tons of people go on and on about how walmart is evil, or how outsourcing is bad, or about how macdonalds is no good, people still do it anyway, as if nothing has been learned.

By: farrr

farrr — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:40:09 +0000

I bet you shop there anyways.

By: farrr

farrr — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:37:39 +0000

I am not made of dollars. If I was, I would not rip my finger off to pay money.

By: Sporkitious

Sporkitious — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:23:22 +0000

Walmart is of the devil.

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:56:30 +0000

In other news, water is wet.

By: Pencilsharpener

Pencilsharpener — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:55:48 +0000

Or we could do something DRASTIC like use our pre-existing railroad infrastructure again and get some giant, potentially dangerous big rigs off the road.
But that would be like, intelligent or something.

By: Pencilsharpener

Pencilsharpener — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:54:07 +0000

Isn’t that the truth… some of the worst China-haters are the ones that do the most shopping for seasonal decorations at mass market stores, and we all know where ALL of that is made.

By: Pencilsharpener

Pencilsharpener — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:51:39 +0000

I remember when Great Value products were all ‘Made in America,’ and yet they were all cheaper than the brand name products. I don’t at all understand what happened there.

By: Pencilsharpener

Pencilsharpener — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:50:41 +0000

I’m glad someone else has pondered the atrocity of outsourcing the flag ffs to China. Could it get any more richly symbolic, especially as China takes on our debts and slowly buys the US?

By: MrBahamut

MrBahamut — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:49:01 +0000

I think the “made in USA” slice is a little too big, actually.

By: Devylan

Devylan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:38:28 +0000

Is she wealthy?

By: Devylan

Devylan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:36:32 +0000

hehe

By: improbabiility

improbabiility — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:00:16 +0000

Exactly! Try shopping for a sister in law who refuses to give anything to her kids that’s made in China. Damn near impossible.

By: moi

moi — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:02:00 +0000

I know! Whoops! I saw something from India…

By: Artemis Prime

Artemis Prime — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:16:39 +0000

I heard a ridiculous statistic that 10% of China’s exports go to WalMart. IKEA isn’t much better in their American stores. But in Europe, where the customers demand their items be made locally, almost everything is made in Europe. I’m not a Redneck, but insist on voting with my dollar by buying things made in the USA to reduce our consumption of the oil used to transport things overseas. (And yes, I’m aware that trucking something across the continent is actually worse than shipping something across one ocean–Luckily I’m in California where all the cool stuff is anyway).

By: zarchasmpgmr

zarchasmpgmr — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:16:55 +0000

Sam Walton wanted products made in America to keep his customers employed.

His children don’t care at all. They want to see the United States of Wal*Mart.

And their “greener” initiative. They pursue it here in the USA, but not for their suppliers internationally.

By: nazani

nazani — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:53:00 +0000

I love the way rednecks talk the most about “made in the USA,” but buy the most Christmas ornaments made in China, often by children. China still continues to persecute Christians, too. Walmart has made some baby steps in the direction of being ‘greener,’ but they’ve got a long way to go before they can claim ethical retailing!

By: chong

chong — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:40:59 +0000

LOL typical america

By: ScruffyKat

ScruffyKat — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:46:29 +0000

The only things “made in America” are babies and unemployment.

By: Roflsneezia

Roflsneezia — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:03:55 +0000

it was extra credit.

By: Roflsneezia

Roflsneezia — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:03:17 +0000

agreed. it shouldn’t just say china, it should say everywhere else. also, food and many books are made in america if i’m not mistaken.

sorry, my teacher had us do an assignment on this.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:18:03 +0000

What about Japan and Germany? =/

By: Blahha

Blahha — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:34:08 +0000

Except Walmart encourages people to outsource. In fact, they encourage it after they get you to invest in increasing your production capacity for their purchases and go into debt. They encourage it by telling you that you will charge them a price on which you can’t make a profit, unless you outsource to China.

By: plot

plot — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:32:10 +0000

Know their name & look them in the eye to do your part.

Buy local from your craftsman/farmer and keep an American in business!

By: Jes

Jes — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:48:07 +0000

Not to mention boring.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:39:15 +0000

Change the “Wal Mart” to ANY other store in the U.S. and the chart is still accurate.

By: hello

hello — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:34:26 +0000

All of the corn syrup in the food products is proudly made in the U.S. of A.

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:04:25 +0000

Not tires anymore.

By: Me

Me — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:31:33 +0000

Caps

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:05:23 +0000

… but some of us are old enough to remember Sam Walton’s “Buy American” heydey. On the other hand, it’s hardly news – see the 1992 dateline report on youtube.

By: Reika - If I'm commenting, it'll most likely piss you off, and piss is really hard to clean up on carpets, so please try to restrain yourself

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:57:00 +0000

The same can be said for a LOT of other stores. :/ So this graph is pointless.

By: Ilove2learn

Ilove2learn — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:41:39 +0000

I once got something there that was either made in Thailand or Tibet. Can’t remember which. That was a long time ago, though.
Btw, I givest thou a link:

http://notalwaysright.com/all-roads-lead-to-china/2323

If it actually works as a link. If not, just copy it and paste it in your adress bar. It shall take you to evidence of people being far to convinced that everything in America is made in China.

By: Logic

Logic — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:36:53 +0000

Same as every other store. Sorry. Another inconsistent Walmart hater FAILS

By: Cadaver

Cadaver — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:51:19 +0000

Let us proudly wave our American flags (made in China).

By: Heath

Heath — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:19:32 +0000

Well, it wouldn’t be as cheap if someone getting a living wage was making it, so no surprise there

By: i_@m_#1

i_@m_#1 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:03:33 +0000

Oh, my this is the truth. Although I did see something made in Thailand.