We don't make textiles anymore, we import steel and auto components, even Schwinn bicycles and Buck knives are Chinese.
Not only call centers and assembly, but our intellectual capital has been outsourced. Our money has been oursourced.
I'm not participating in this everything-is-OK party. If American manufacturing and productivity is so high, why can't I find American-made products?
You can still get an American-made Oreck vacuum cleaner, while the offer lasts. You can still get Hershey bars. After that, it gets tougher.
Of course you don’t have any numbers. You guys just go on feelings and anecdotal evidence.
Hershey makes most of its chocolate overseas. Smaller American companies are stealing their base. Check out their stock price.
Hate to tell you but, Hershey is in the process of moving to the southland, McCainville.
Wrong. Only the cheapies are made overseas. Try spending a few more dollars and get an American made. Their website makes it very easy by putting an American Flag next to the product so you know where it's made. Feel free to stop at the factory in Idaho and while you're there pick up a Buck Strider; you'll be very pleased.
For a limited time. The Hershey Trust has been talking about either selling the chocolate manufacturing business or moving manufacturing off-shore. Mexico is the destination, I believe.
Part of the problem is that American business concerns pay an artificially high price for sugar due to certain positions that the US has taken on that commodity. I suppose that moving out of the jurisdiction of the US will have an immediate effect with sugar purchases.
The Trust would rather manage its investments (Hershey Medical Center) & its charities than be bothered with the manufacturing company that got them there.
They call it "progress".