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"Unions seem to be going the same way as the Democrat Party."
OH NO, you mean the Unions AND the Democrats are moving to Canada now?
Honey, start packing, we're leaving.......
Best of luck (we'll need it).
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Personally I hope all stores and restaurants and service places in general would give personalized service. It does not take that much extra effort to be nice and care about what someone says. I did not mean to get on a soap box but it is easy to look for negatives but there are also many positives. We live in a global society. Very few things will be 100% American. I remember laughing at Japanese products and now they are the best quality. Anybody think a GE TV or VCR is made by General Electric? How about RCA. Nope they make none of them. It is owned by Thompson Electronics of FRANCE and made in China. What irritates me is they use US brand names but they are not even the companies they pretend to be. It should be outlawed.
John
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I guess people who "boycott" Wal-Mart do not understand that they started just like everyone else did, as a small store with one location/idea, just like Microsoft did.
The fact that KMart and other former retail giants (Sears usued to be the biggest retailer...what happened??) did not wake up and smell the coffee when Wal-Mart had say...100 stores and growing is their own problem.
And let's not forget this is the American way as well as the law of nature. The one with the cheaper product who just does business better all the way around will prosper. The weak will die and the strong will survive, and eat the weak one if needed. If Sears/Kmart/others could have crushed Wal-Mart and drove them out when they were still small, you know damn well they would have with no regrets. If Joe sells beans for $1 a can and Larry moves in and sells a similar can for .98 with a free can opener, Joe better do something, right?
Do I want mom and pop to go under? No. Do I want to import even one item from anywhere? No. But it is impossible at this point in the world not to and due to our own greed as a collective people that has made it this way. If none of this stuff was imported, we would be paying $150 for that toaster made 100% in the USA because GE or whoever would have to pay for Joe Six-pack's $25/hr salary/insurance/bonus/401k/health/dental/sick days/vacation/back injury/workman's comp/etc/etc/etc
The bottom line is this..our system is the best on earth, but it does have flaws. One of those flaws is that the big fish will always get bigger..until a stronger fish brings them down. If you don't like that idea then move to a communist country where everybody is equal - equally forced to be the same (except of course for the leaders who prosper)
ps Please dont hit me with the import thing...retailers have been getting goods from wherever they could get them cheapest since before any of us were born. Would they do this if people didn't want cheaper stuff regardless of quality? No.
pps If we had leaders with backbone there would be a tariff on every imported good to bring it equal to our goods. Then it would be who makes things better, not cheaper and I think we a would all benefit.
just my 2 cents..sorry so long 
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MAYBE K-MART IS DROPPING,STANLEY,BLACK&DECKER,SKIL,DEXTER TO CARRY CRAFTSMAN EXCLUSIVLY, HOWEVER THE IDEA OF A 200 THREAD COUNT ,COLOR MATCHING FENDER COVER IS A LITTLE MUCH ;{
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I don't shop Wally World or Home Depot. Materials in the long run are cheaper at my local building supply, they have people that know something and material comes on a boom truck when and where you want it. The prices of toasters, coffee pots, car parts or what ever, would be the same if they where made in the US, it's all proffit margin to please the share holders. When Nikes where made in New Hampshire they where sneakers that lasted a year with everyday use at a fair price. Now that they are made by kids in sweat shops at 35 cents a pair, they cost three times as much and last 1/10 the time. All profit margin.$165.00 a pair for sneakers and people pay it!!!!!!!
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I agree with echo10mp. We are a world economy, its too late to turn back. Its democracy and capitalism at work. Its what our country stands for and what makes us the most powerful nation in the world. At IBM the world market is not big enough for us. We sell 60% of our systems overseas. We are waiting for business from China and Eastern Europe to grow. After that we will be looking for other planets.
I like the unique selections we get at our small local businesses. I am not sure service or quality are any better at our small businesses than they are at the super stores. You can always return an item at a superstore and you can research what you need on the internet. If they don't have unique products you can't get at a superstore - then they have nothing else to offer me.
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boy howdy, try to feed and you'll be bitten. Sometimes you get the made in the usa sticker on a product and take it home patriotically...and then you have to patriotically call a company to do it for you when you figure you can't pull it off with that equipment, and you know, the company is using that same piece of equipment that you didn't buy becuase it isn't american
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