I love Wal - Mart

[bawanajim]

And we do deserve just what we are getting. Cheap Junk.With some luck they won't kill us all. [:'(]











Do cheap Chinese goods have to mean trade-off in quality?



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Troubled toothpaste: Tubes of Chinese-made Dentamint.
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By David J. Lynch, USA TODAY[/align]Killer pet food. Tainted toothpaste. Tires lacking an essential safety component. And now, seafood laced with potentially unhealthy levels of antibiotics.[/align]Suddenly, "Made in China" looks like another way of saying: "Buyer beware."
In recent years, American consumers eagerly snapped up an ever-widening array of Chinese-made products, from Wal-Mart(WMT) T-shirts and Dell(DELL) laptops to Black & Decker(BDK) power drills and Ethan Allen(ETH) cabinets. It's no secret why multinational companies increased their reliance on Chinese factories: lower production costs. The recent spate of suspect Chinese imports, however, is raising troubling questions about the trade-offs involved in the relentless pursuit of rock-bottom prices.
"Sometimes, it's a shock to discover how poor the quality processes are," says Sebastien Breteau, chief executive of Asia Inspection, a Hong Kong company that audits Chinese factories for 158 U.S. companies. "It's very, very common that the goods you receive are not exactly what you ordered, either because the factory can't deliver or because the definition of the product is not clear enough."

[Phil from Maine]

Yeah, it puts Americans out of work, kills their pets, and even tries tp kill the people here. It's great that they can do this to us here in the Good - Ol - USA isn't it! I read an article a while back that stated if Wal - Mart was a country it would be the third largest importer for Chinese goods...[:@]So I guess Wal - Mart is pretty great?????

[Jeff Ovington]

You know..
I still don't know why we havn't learned this lesson yet..........
EXPORT OUR JUNK FOR TOP DOLLAR AND KEEP THE GOOD STUFF FOR OURSELVES......

[Big Duane]

when Sam Walton turned over his company, it became all about money and nothing about " made in the USA "

[Chuck7]

I love Wally too..
Here's a few reasons.

1. Open all night

Bought the following items and very pleased.

870 Remington shotgun

30-30 Marlin

Hunting / Fihsing licenses

Team Diawa rods and awesome fishing reels

We buy all of our groceries there

The other day I broke my depth finder..I had no box, no receipt and I lost the manual.I still got a full refund.
I have no complaints.
C7

Try returning that 230.00 depth finder to Bass pro , Cabelas or your local tackle shop.

[Champlain Islander]

Somebody must like them because they have hadeleven 2 for 1 stock splits since their IPO in '70.

[kevin1]

I don't expect Tiffany quality from a discount retailer, I shop there because their prices are generally acceptable to me and no other reason, and it sure as hell ain't for service either. If the products they carried were all still made here most of us wouldn't shop there because their prices would go up noticeably. As far as Chinese goods go, well, I'm old enough to remember when the phrase "Made in ***an" was a slur indicating cheaply made shoddy merchandise. Look at them now. Sooner or later the same companies that are piling on the China bandwagon for the cheap labor are going to begin demanding higher quality because we the consumer are, then those cheaply made goods won't be nearly as cheap anymore.

[hillbillyhunter1]

I saw on some report how the chinese were force feeding these pigs raw waste water in order to fatten them up. Showed the pigs with these garden tubes running down there throats. Gawd that was disgusting and pitiful.

[SSuperCHARGed]

Here we go again...

[falcon]

Blame those US companies who fire their US workers and have their stuff made in China. Most Weaver scope rings and mounts are made in China.Some, if not most,Leupold scope rings and mounts are made in China.Put the real made in the USA item beside the cheap Chinese imitation and you can see the difference.

"Meanwhile, major retailers like Wal-Mart, Buck Knives' biggest customer, were demanding lower-cost products the company couldn't afford to make in El Cajon. So in 2000, Buck Knives opened a plant in China. The company now imports 30 percent of its knives from there, mostly for outdoor recreationists and selling for less than $30."