There are plenty of other places to buy cr-ppy Chinese-made hoodies and t-shirts online.
If you are one of the 0.5% of humans who actually exercise by running or walking slightly rapidly, there are many other brands of shoes better suited to this. The rest of America can barely crawl onto their scooters to ride to the klan rally at the local DFW hall.
Basketball? Nobody cares. MJ is just an old republican weirdo by now.
"Need to make sport great again."
victimhood/whining and sports don't mix
Need to make sport great again.
@ qx+1jjjxw21z adidas actually did this and had to shut down the factories because they were not cost effective and the shoes US consumers wanted were not the ones those factories were set up to produce.
Better use robot if we want to make shoes here to have competitive price. Even we can somehow make shoes manually & locally with a very competitive price thanks to all the tariffs suggested by Mr. Trump, how we gonna sell them outside America? Their salary is probably less than half of ours and not to mention their economy may suffer due to job loss.
Not saying we should not have any manufacturing at home, but I do think we should focus on next generation stuff which we are good at and that's the reason why we can enjoy high margin.
I watched an interview with the highly acclaimed (often with good reason), Jeffery Sachs, where he bragged to the audience, (of Bay Area elites), that sure, by moving the manufacturing from America to China, it was very bad for a hypothetical Ohio shop worker, but it was great for the people in the audience, and for Jeffery Sachs, who (amazingly) admitted that he too was also was made rich by the outsourcing to China of America’s manufacturing jobs.
"so unless you can prove you aren’t a complete hypocrite, you’re using this conversation to argue fundamental ethics vs economics which is the epitome of theory vs fact"
i don't think you have proven anything at all, calling something a fact doesn't make it so
you have wonderful media
a company makes a certain amount of money using slave labor in some third world country, how much of that savings shows up as a reduced price of the product vs extra profit for the CEO and the company's majority shareholders
also what happens when a smarter country like China decides to steal the technology shipped over there by greedy skillless bankers
@kw+1jjjxw21z No one said anything about non-white countries and no need to make this a race thing. I’m simply stating facts, of how the existing supply chain works.
Have you ever studied economics? Generally as countries develop they move from agriculture to manufacturing to knowledge work . Unfortunately I don’t have the power to undo the entire history of how the global world has developed, and if you know anything about manufacturing in Turkey, Middle East, UK, Portugal, Italy, or Eastern Europe you also wouldn’t be on your high horse.
If you want to pay Americans $15 an hour to knit and sew your shirt, do it. But I highly doubt if we look at your closet you’re only buying American / locally made. If made locally, FOB will be closer to $50, putting retail at $150, versus current cost of $25. You also have to stipulate then you aren’t hiring Mexican day labor which is what supports the majority of factories in LA. I’m sure they would hire plenty of white Americans if they could, show me where white Americans are lining up to do that work.
I’ve worked on plenty of projects to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. and over the last 20 years results have always been consumers aren’t willing to pay for it, so unless you can prove you aren’t a complete hypocrite, you’re using this conversation to argue fundamental ethics vs economics which is the epitome of theory vs fact
"granted your prices will be about 100x more if we are paying Americans a fair wage to make them, otherwise we will be paying Mexican day labor for US manufacturing like everyone else who makes product locally"
dude you are a prophet
i don't know how we survived the 20th century without any of your slave labor
from oddly enough all NON WHITE countries
perhaps we need to bring back slavery to the south
but you may need a little help with your math
so you are saying that if we make the $50,000 car in the US
it will cost us 100*50000= $5,000,000 now
perhaps you could start paying down the debt of 37 trillion that you accumulated
while offshoring all our manufacturing to save americans a few extra bucks
Show me you’re willing to pay for local made product and we will happily move production back to the U.S.
granted your prices will be about 100x more if we are paying Americans a fair wage to make them, otherwise we will be paying Mexican day labor for US manufacturing like everyone else who makes product locally.
Do you have a preference (or knowledge of supply chains?)
"Nike started moving most of its global production out of China years ago."
yup, Nike set up another plantation in a different third world country
According to the latest data we have from November 2020, Nike has 35 U.S. factories (30 focused on apparel), which makes up 6.4% of their total number of worldwide factories. Those 35 factories employ 5,430 workers, a measly 0.5% of Nike’s total workers across their entire manufacturing footprint. Averaging that out, each U.S. Nike factory employs 155.1 workers on average, compared to the average across all of their factories of 2,010.1 workers.
Vietnam, China, and Indonesia make up most of their footprint, totaling 51.6% of their manufacturing plants. Those countries are clearly the hotbeds for manufacturing where they really “pack it in”, each factory employing 2,888.6 workers on average.
OP, if you actually knew anything about this business you’d know that most Nike products made in China are also sold in China. These days only a few Chinese-made Nike products exist outside of China. Nike started moving most of its global production out of China years ago.
If you work at Nike and don’t already know this, God help us all. Although something tells me you don’t work at Nike. Just a hunch.
Well said by an old bitter Karen sounding of an OP who surely doesn’t exercise (clearly hating those who do) and has zero business or industry knowledge. Carry on OP and head back to the KFC forum to talk about your quest for the hidden herbs and spices.
If you believe that maybe you should quit and go to another company that’s better? Or do you just lack the skills and personality to be hired elsewhere? Or maybe you don’t work at Nike …. but then why are you posting? Bitter about being fired?
heck the foreigners brought in are too d-mb to spell Nike
they will just steal it
i heard in CA you can just walk in and grab your overpriced Nike apparel
Just Steal It