Old Department Stores

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
And now the suburban malls are suffering. Dying, even, some of them.

I hit Penney’s maybe twice a year, to buy a couple three or four shirts and maybe a pair of jeans or two. Target gets a few bucks out of me on occasion. But I’ve been increasingly buying online, often with the evil Amazon, because it’s convenient and, credit where it is due, the customer service is excellent.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I remember when Wally World got called on that Made In America campaign. Turned out that much of their merch was actually made in China. I think the company never put any country of origin, the tags just had something like Your Local American Walmart Store. Customers never even flinched, they just wanted cheap prices. I think this all went down in the 80s.

The very first time I had ever seen something made in China was around 1986.

 

[LostInTyme]

Back in the fifties, Japan was shipping bunches of cheap goods to the U.S.A. with "made in USA" printed on everything. Turns out, they had a city named USA in Japan just to fool the buyers here in the States.