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Not Made in America, Wal-Mart Looks Overseas For Online Vendors (reuters.com)
Walmart.com, trailing Amazon.com in the number of goods for sale on its website, is recruiting vendors in China and other countries to boost its online offerings in a pivot away from Wal-Mart's Made-in-America campaign. From a report: While there is a financial incentive behind the move, Wal-Mart's decision comes out of necessity: not all the goods its customers want -- ranging from jeans to bicycles to beauty products -- are manufactured within the United States. That reality pits Wal-Mart against President Donald Trump's "Made in America" push. It also risks alienating some of Wal-Mart's existing U.S. vendors since it runs counter to the American-made pledge the retailer made in 2013 in a bid to win customers, and satisfy unions and other critics who said its drive for low cost goods was undermining American jobs. According to two sources with knowledge of the matter, Wal-Mart Stores in February began inviting sellers from China, the United Kingdom and Canada to list on the marketplace section of Walmart.com, where it earns a share of revenue from goods sold and delivered to customers by third-party vendors.
seriously, does anyone give a shit?
When looking for cheap stuff from overseas, I just go to ebay. Not always the safest move, but a very good selection. Not sure what Walmart would add.
The Globalization Genie had been opened. Trying to get it closed will not be easy.
There are some tasks that just doesn't make sense for America to do anymore. Putting workers pay and working conditions aside. It is just trying to find people willing to do that particular work. Kids today are not looking for manufacturing jobs. The manufacturing jobs in America are for higher cost items, because these jobs require people with real skills to build.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It's seems like an eternity ago.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
You must be joking.
Wal-mart hasn't been about "made in America" since the last century at least. THEY are the ones pushing companies to cut prices at any cost and outsource manufacturing to China to begin with.
They are the LAST place I would go looking for stuff made in the US. They try to drive those kinds of companies out of business.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Why would I go visit the ASDA web site for anything (ASDA is Walmart in the UK)?
I don't shop there and honestly there is no reason for me to go anywhere near my local one when every other supermarket in the area has free parking and even some EV charging points when it costs money to park at ASDA?
Then the offerings in the store might be cheap but every package seems to be jumbo sized and aimed a large families (4 kids minimum). Said kids are usually running riot in the store while their parents chat to their friends.
As I don't use their physical store, why would I use their online store?
There are plenty of other retailers to choose from here. ASDA are at the very bottom of the list.
Not Made in America, Wal-Mart Looks Overseas For Online Vendors
What, Wal-Mart's not made in America?
Comma should have been a colon. Someone needs to go to headline-writing school.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Really, is anyone surprised by this?
I don't like Wal-Mart. I remember a long time ago when Wal-Mart would advertise that everything they sold in the store was made in the USA. Then one day those advertisements stopped. They still had ads on TV but the claims of everything made in the USA wasn't part of it. Then it was how every day they dropped prices. Cheap, cheap, cheap, that's what they sold.
When I had to move to a new town and buy some things for my apartment I didn't know where I could shop. I did happen upon a Wal-Mart though. The place was dimly lit. It smelled like cheap plastic. And, the other shoppers looked like extras from a horror movie. The wastebasket I bought then stunk up the whole apartment. I told myself that I'd only go back to Wal-Mart again only if there was no other alternative.
I'll still go back once in a while. Usually because I'm taken there by someone I'm shopping with. The stores are brighter now. The stench is gone. The quality of the shoppers is hit and miss. I've learned what is "safe" and "not safe" to buy for the most part. Milk is usually safe, fruits not so much. I've learned to also look for brands I recognize. Schumacher? Never seen them before, probably crap. Deltran? I've heard of them, I'll get that instead.
If I need to buy something right away I've got lots of choices besides Wal-Mart. Would I go on-line to buy anything from them? Not likely. Sorry Wal-Mart, you lost me when you prioritized price over quality. I can't afford you because I cannot be bothered to buy my stuff twice. I'd rather go somewhere else and buy a quality product in the first place so I don't have to go looking for a replacement. I see you have not changed your ways.
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Because the 1376 results i got on my last search most definately was inferior to Amazon's 1736 results :O
I think someone is a little OCD or something...
The 1st thing i do is sort to get rid of the 3rd party stuff. So, um, not so impressive. Like someone said, eBay is easier for cheap Chinese stuff direct.
Back when Walmart was becoming a national thing, Sam Walton would be quoted, "We have the highest quality products at the lowest prices!"
So, when one finally showed up near me, I went shopping. Same shit as K-Mart for maybe a cent or two lower.
He was just another bullshitter. He had this public personae of this folksy Arkansas hick who drove an old pickup truck (Hey customers! I'm just one of you!) but in reality he was s shrewd business guy that exploited his customers and the fact the most retailers stayed away from rural areas.
That's all he did: he put stores were others didn't and sold the same shit.
Walmart is not just in America. It has more than 6000 stores in America, but in China it has more than 400. It and the US govt. needs to be more shrewd in bargaining to get more stores in China and other places. No one-sided protectionism. Kill China's preferred nation status with the US if they get all fussy about letting more American goods and businesses in.
Walmart *could* compete with Amazon. They offer 2-day shipping, and have a seller marketplace... but that two day shipping is useless when the item isn't shipped for weeks.
Make America grate again!
It's worthless crap. And I'm not even american...
Why would we shop at Walmart?
The prices are good,the quality is Good Enough, it's less than 2 miles from the house, and there are 4 people in our household.
yes indeed it's all about you and your convenience
you are gladly giving your money to people who literally want you to die
don't believe me? look at what they pay people. not enough to eat
Dam, it has been almost 20 years since Wal-Mart moved away from Made in America to cheap Asian products. I doubt that you can find 5% of the products of value between 1 cent and $20 that are not imported.
Sam Walton would be crying if he saw what his family and 'friends' have done to his legacy.
Wal-Mart makes up (or maybe "made up"?) something like 3% of US GDP and the family who runs it has multiple members in the "100 Richest people in the world" list put out annually by Fortune. Their relentless push to drive down prices and overall cheapness is well documented in business circles, and their business tactics have forced many American manufacturers to relocate their manufacturing facilities overseas, mostly to China, so that Walmart could shave the prices down some more. This is well documented in stories such as "The Man Who Said No To Walmart" in "Fast Company" and "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?" on PBS's Frontline. There are many other such analyses that show how Walmart's influence led to American jobs being pushed out. Let's also not forget Walmart is also a leader in putting their employees on Medicaid, effectively stuffing the taxpayer to pay their employee health care (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/dec/06/alan-grayson/alan-grayson-says-more-walmart-employees-medicaid-/), so by having a Walmart in your state, your tax dollars are going to fund their healthcare while the corporate office is pushing for tax breaks to pay out more executive bonuses to quite literally one of the wealthiest families in the world.
What percentage of Trump voters (versus those who voted for Clinton) also shop at Walmart?
Not even one item in the meat section I cant get a better price on. Walmart has been trying to knock your head of on rice for quit awhile now Walmart and whole paycheck have alot in common in the food section.
Even Electronics selling you docsis 3.0 at prices like 3.1 Did not know people who by routers were suckers.
Same items all the time guess once you get in you have it all sewed up
Why do grocery stores up against them try to compete with same products I would not have even one item the same lots of smaller layers would love to get in anywhere it seems to me.