![]() ![]() It is very telling that having something made on the other side of the world and shipped here is still much less expensive than from here to start with. Plus our higher min wages.if people are willing to pay 25 for a tshirt then sure, I can point you to US companies. I think unions have a real role like safety and harrassment.but for sure there are some around here that do nothing but new contracts when they come due. ![]() Many of the workers made way more than min wage but it was never enough. Some jobs are just not worth more than X/hr and pushing for more pushed factories out of here. It might well catch items we dont/cant make here as well. I have always said if we had import tariffs like Europe would push companies back here to manufacture but I know people don't agree with me. People are simply ordering from Chinese factories.or in other places like Indonesia, etc. Not everything from China are US company sites. We rely FAR too much on China to manufacture the goods we buy. I can't help but think that if more patterned paper was made and printed by more North American paper mills, maybe so many mills wouldn't be permanently shutting down. I know that some people are just going crazy of Michaels 12 x12 paper packs, but they are just not for me. No new stock and those super value 12 x 12 paper packs at Michaels I think personally they are horrible designs and 12 x 12 to me is to big of a design for cardmaking, I'm not a scraper. My Joann's is the same as Michael's they have stock but it's all old stuff, real old.Ĭardstock and paper pads are hard to find at any store. And their card stock is low and all the same designer paper packs, no new paper at all. My Hobby Lobby has all the same stuff, nothing new and very low on supplies. Cashier said next month they expect paper craft shipments but don't know what. My Michaels paper craft section is empty. I have done more online paper craft ordering then in store purchasing. There are some products that haven't been in my local grocery stores for a year - common things. This year the supply chain has been broken for a year and the Suez canal thing certainly isn't helping. ![]() For years, I've seen questions about if papercrafting was going away when it was just the quarterly refresh, and I used to comment on those questions, because it was just a specific experience I knew about. It changes buying patterns if things are in different places. I was in the construction industry for almost 20 years, and if this were a normal year, I'd tell you that big box does this refresh quarterly - Toys R Us would rearrange the entire store - we'd move power, all the shelving, etc and work overnight to change up all the displays so they could redo the inventory. The paper crafting aisles have shrunk to nothing and it depresses me to shop there. There are two new huge stores near me and IMO they will soon become stores you go to for home dec, Christmas stuff, kids' crafts and some sewing things. ![]() All the usual paper crafting, jewelry, paint, etc., stock was there, just rearranged and squished together. My closest Michael's recently changed everything around to make more room for home dec and seasonal stuff. Until Change is made with American manufactures we have no choice as to buy what American companies manufacture in other countries.īecause everything from car parts, phones, computers, electrics, household appliances, clothing, craft items and the list goes on and on are majority made in china and other countries. These American companies feel purchasing overseas manufacturing plants and hiring employees from that country to produce their product and have it shipped back here is cheaper than purchasing manufacturing plants in America and hiring American workers. Until the American companies stop sending their products overseas to be manufactured we the American public have no choice. I think probably more like poor shipping practices with not securing the containers well enough AND not knowing how to deal with the high seas that have always been around. I recently read an article that said there are Huge losses from containers falling off ships! Blaming high seas. ![]()
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