Let me assist the reader...(nothing surprising here)
Calling Cut on Video Post-production Services
Extra! Extra! Newspaper Publishing on Its Last Legs
Apparel Manufacturing Unraveling Fast
Textile Mills Still in Existence ... Barely
Formal Wear and Costume Rental Can’t Disguise Decline
Digital Killed the Record Store
R.I.P. Video Rental
Death of the Local Photo shop
Homes on the Move ... Downward
Unplugging Wired Telecommunications Carriers
Some of us are surviving just fine, even growing at the expense of cheap commodity product sourced in Asia. It's not as if we're running around nekkid en masse either, lol.
Some things require speed to market, a high degree of flexibility and lot quantities insufficient for container shipping to be cost effective. High volume, low margin. Low volume, high margin. It can be made to work with enough throughput. Takes some serious stamina and an eagle eye though.
Additionally, there is enough sample business from apparel with the actual high volume production sourced overseas to keep a domestic company reasonably busy. Communication problems, speed, the ability to actually be hands-on all play into creating a situation wherein buyers are very leery if not downright sick of trying to get samples outside the domestic environment.
Currency distortion in the form of a cheap dollar actually helps domestic apparel manufacture too, believe it or not. So, this death knell is not just premature, it's wrong.
Somebody should have considered the Post Office for this list. Lots of costly employees while snail mail is rapidly being replaced by email.
Thanks for posting the list.