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Originally Posted by Twodogs
I recently joined Costco, and have been going there instead of Wal Mart. I would say there are a lot more opportunities to buy American at the Costco stores. I bought a couple packs of marino wool works socks and they were made in the USA with USA wool. You can actually wash the sons of beeches without ruining them like the cheap chinese ones at wally world. I line dry them in my shop, and they haven't shrunk a bit. It's amazing to me what we can get used to in the area of terrible quality and service. They had local stuff too, in the produce and beef / meat depts. I could not however find local milk, and the milk was only 1.99 a gallon, so I'll be looking into how they are doing that and may have to buy milk somewhere else.
At work, we got our new shirts and they were from Pakistan (at a Union Shop).  We approached the boss and all volunteered to have the difference in price deducted from our checks so that we could continue wearing American clothes. He was very reseptive.  I hope all Americans start doubling down on checking labels, and letting retailers know why they are not buying their foreign items. |
I'll have to look into Costco, then. I bought some Dickies Heavy Duty Work socks at Walmart last night; Made in Pakistan. I went through every single sock package in the isle. Not a single item made in the USA. Sickening.
I should have realized it, though. We sell a lot of coffee to Costco. Including the large 48oz. cans of Kirkland. (Imagine that, a "three pound" can that actually weighs three pounds!).
Dave