Posted on 05/07/2008 10:55:13 PM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
Not to rain on your parade, but the Dollar Store is where old merchandise goes to die. It’s stuff the manufacturers couldn’t sell or had laying around the warehouse or even found in a warehouse somewhere.
"China has a thriving capitalist economy..."
We're fully aware that the ruling elite never eschewed money since the Revolution. We call them Communists because that's the term we use. There's that pesky political aspect to their system. If you want to boot lick authoritarian thugs, who are a adversary of the USA, then "emergent market" will do fine.
The Dollar stores (there are several chains) are not job lot stores like Big Lots or other stores that specialize in liquidated inventory. Family Dollar for instance has thousands of stores and several distribution centers. As such they have alot of buying power and primarily sell their own generic-type brand.
Alot of times, it’s redesign. Change to product specs, so they put out all the old stock on the cheap.
They could be counterfit? I’d have one tested for lead etc.
My point was that the bowl he bought may have been made by a company that has been out of business for the past decade.
Just as long as USA is not the name of some obscure Chinese village. 8^)
I bought some wood dowels at Home Depot the other day. I happen to check out the label and I couldn’t believe they were MADE IN CHINA. WOOD !!!! We have trees in the US, don’t we?
Yes, but they can't be harvested because of all the greenies sitting at the tops of them. ;o)
All the more reason to harvest them. :)
Of course, the bad news is those ‘made in America’ stickers were made in China. ;-P
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LOL!
Very good potlatch!
I like the guy’s shorts up under his arms...LOL.
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Yeah -
Billy Crystal used to do that in a TV skit!
Some others too, but I can’t recall. Always a funny thing.
Re: My plastic bucket
Did more research and found...
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