Re: OT Why isn't anyone griping about Chinese goods ?
- From: "mack" <mackerel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:58:33 -0700
"DH" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What is this? We don't already do enough OT posting on a wide enough
variety of subjects to suit you?
That's right, and if you don't care for OT posts, you can always ignore
them, right?
Anyway, I made the same sort of spot-check myself at Target the other day
and, while I did find some US-made items, there were a lot of Indian,
Pakistani and Chinese products. Enough to be profoundly depressing.
That's just what I said - depressing and scary, as if the only things the US
makes anymore is Kleenex and pink slips to mfg. employees.
A colleague in marketing points out that there's a recent bifurcation of
purchasing Some amount of purchases in a product category will be for a
high-quality, higher-priced item. However, increasingly the consumers who
used to purchase at mid-level quality and pricing head straight for the
bottom and purchase low quality goods simply because they're the cheapest.
I suggested to him this isn't so much due to consumer behavior as it is
due to, increasingly, consumer outlets offering only the least-expensive
goods, regardless of the quality. This is certainly my experience at
Wal*Mart. And Wal*Mart by itself is big enough to skew the curve. Since
it is able to establish itself, de facto, as a monopoly in many rural
areas, this leads to reduced choice for a large number of consumers (go
cheap or go without).
Sure, there may be toasters like a DeLonghi model for a hundred bucks, and
available at a high end store in a metropolis, but in my smallish (under
80,000) town, the local stores like Walmart, KMart, Sears, Target and so on
would likely never carry such an item, and you wouldn't catch me paying $100
for a toaster anyway. But you can bet that if I found an American made
toaster of quality for about $50, I'd sooner buy it than a Chinese model at
$35.
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