What the? Made in USA?!?!

[Nick R]

Picked up some hangers as the ones I had are all broken... Anyway, picked a bunch up from wal mart, and saw this. I'm in shock. Something that almost anyone would think would be made in china...

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Are you sure it's not mfg in (the once infamous) Usa Japan?

 

[mewisemagic]

typo

 

[CivicFan]

I thought the hanger maker that refused to move its operations to China went bankrupt a couple of years ago. Apparently that did not mean going out of business.

 

[JHZR2]

Plastic stuff like hangars and wastebaskets are some of the few things that can routinely be found made in USA.

 

[crw]

Something that is large and bulky and cheap is cheaper to make here than to ship it here from elsewhere.

Did you ever stop and think that Wal-Mart makes more money selling stuff than the manufacturer makes making it?

Of an iPhone, which is "made" in China, about 1% of the as-sold price of the iPhone actually goes to the China based assembler. Do you really want a piece of that action?

 

[Stu_Rock]

The other day I bought a cheap bamboo broom handle at local warehouse grocery store. "Surely a cheap bamboo broomstick is made in China," I thought. But when I got it home I noticed the sticker: "Made in USA"

 

[beast3300]

Wow made in the USA! Is that a picture taken from the alternate universe from the tv show Fringe?

 

[Smokescreen]

Finally some talent, industry and jobs that have not been outsourced...

 

[sr17]

hangers - are we bored or what???????

 

[bdcardinal]

Maybe its just the label thats made in the US and on the inside in size 2 font says "product formed in PRC from materials sourced from Kenya by workers from India"

 

[BeanCounter]

Over the past year to two years I have noticed more in Walmart being Made in the USA. Probably fairly correlated to the decline in the dollar, but there are more wood products and similar items showing USA than before, it seems.

 

[Nick R]

Whoops! Thanks Helen, and everyone for pointing that out, I hadn't even noticed the card in the picture

 

[GMBoy]

Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
Maybe its just the label thats made in the US



That's was what I was thinking.

 

[daves87rs]

Plastics seem to be making a comeback here...


I've also noticed a lot more Libby and Anchor Hocking (usa made glassware) in many more places too...

 

[rshunter]

As transport costs increase, the more competitive domestic production becomes.

 

[addyguy]

Should NA really be proud of producing HANGERS?

C'mon, people, this is not a good thing!

 

[simple_gifts]

Until recently, stuff made in the Marianas Islands under virtual slave labor could carry the Made in USA label; so the mental image of production invoked isn't always the case.

Wikipedia has a good write up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saipan
about 1/2 way down.

 

[Johnny]

I don't have pictures, but I have you know that I use toothpicks made from Wisconsin trees made at a toothpick manufacturing plant in Rhinelander, WI. None of those fancy China made plastic toothpicks for me.

 

[Scienceman]

Johnny!