Posted on 03/08/2006 9:19:50 AM PST by Willie Green
It took me a second to process that - oh yeah, my tagline!
I'm still using the last of an old roll of 60/40 Kester solder. Yep, the lead stuff, but I observe the "safe" practices I learned back when I got my level D card at the Navy's micro-miniature component repair school. Let's hope that the slow turning of mental gears in response to your post isn't the result of all those solder fumes I've breathed over the years. ;-) (Those fumes are more likely rosin than lead, I'll bet)
Ah well, as Joycelyn Elders once so eloquently put it - "We're all gonna die from sumthin'"!
Worse than that, even. I noticed (sample size = 1) a marked decrease in Levi Stauss' quality as much as ten years ago . . . probably because some bean-counter determined that it could save a few pennies on crappy imported material.
Typical leftist hypocrites!
http://www.buyblue.org/node/1314/view/summary
and dont forget to remind everyone of Levis anti-gun alliance with PAX.
I switched to Carhartts as well. They still make some of their jeans in the US. You have to check the tag on the inside, because some are made in Mexico, but as far I know one of the only companies that still makes jeans in the US.
It's too bad, because Levis were cool jeans, and they were synonymous with America in other parts of the world. What's more American than a pair of blue jeans? Teenagers in Russia would sell their mothers for a pair of American jeans during the 80s.
I don't think it was Wal Mart's fault either. Wal Mart has developed a different way to move merchandise and it doesn't need to pay for 300 plus employees sending out their products from a dispatch center. Once less step in the supply chain should reduce the cost of blue jeans.
I personally don't hate Levi's. I just prefer Diesel and Armani.
A few years ago Levi Strauss posted a link on their web site to some anti 2nd amendment groups. Although, I'd worn Levi jeans for years I changed brands on principle.
I don't know if it made a difference. I don't know if it is co-incidental but I did the same with K-Mart.
Thanks guys. What you say makes sense.
bttt
"...probably because some bean-counter determined that it could save a few pennies on crappy imported material."
Think it was a LOT more then a few pennies, might have even been enough to cover the increased health care and retirement costs that American workers demanded until that got too much and their jobs went overseas.
... and people wonder why most of the cars in the parking lots are not made in Detroit anymore ...
Levi's has been losing market-share for years, mostly because of increased competition from boutique brands at the high-end and bargain brands at the low end, which are sold out of superstores like Target and TJ Maxx. They're also historically slow to respond to changing fashion trends--like the whole baggy-pants thing a few years back. The closing of the Arkansas distribution center is a cost-cutting measure designed to eliminate redundancy in the supply-chain, and is most likely directly linked to the Wal-Mart deal.
Yep, so now do you buy your jeans from those good 'ole boy pro-gun jeans makers in China or Thailand ?
Was that in Millington? I'm an old flyboy from the GBGR somewhere near Crater Range. Did you remember those percentages or have to look? Thanks for your service.
(It will probably be bird flu from a feral cat!)
Yep, 60/40 is one of those numbers engraved on my brain cells. I think the ratio is 63/37 now, though.
If Her Heinous wins elective office for anything higher than US Senator, it will probably be from stroke. =8-0
I wonder if Levis is selling more pants now that Wal Mart sells em ?
Apparently it's the only thing keep Levi's afloat. It's also good for WM; they're trying to draw "middle-end" shoppers away from Target.
What happens when Wal Mart wants to pay $1/pair less for Levis ?
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