It was in his Address to Congress.
How do you do that? How do you buy American? Also, seems like a rehash of Walmart putting made in the usa stickers on 75% of their merchandise. What decade was that?
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It was in his Address to Congress.
How do you do that? How do you buy American? Also, seems like a rehash of Walmart putting made in the usa stickers on 75% of their merchandise. What decade was that?
That's precisely it, buy something with a USA flag on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Being
And its something Americans have been doing for decades now isn't it? Not an original concept at all.
Yeah that doesn't seem new at all. A couple of years ago even when I bought scientific equipment it came in packaging containing American flags and "**Made with PRIDE in the USA**". Literally with the stars, bold and underlined, which to be honest made me take that supplier less seriously.
Arguably buying local is more important now we've seen how a little thing like a virus can screw up supply chains.
My favorite is a local store that says something like "All products and workers from America."
One of my jobs is selecting and validating suppliers for key raw materials that go into our manufacturing process. We have a heavy bias towards manufacturing in the US, not because of patriotism or cost, but because of reliability of supply and lead times. If I order from a US mfg, chances are I can get delivery in days. If I work with a Chinese or European supplier, it could be weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flixy
The oddest things sometimes have supply crunches and it's hard to plan for them. I remember back in the financial crisis, it was suddenly impossible to buy acetonitrile (a solvent) because it was made as a byproduct of acrylonitrile manufacture, and the floor falling out of the car market meant no one wanted acrylonitrile anymore. Going a few more years back there was a huge shortage of tris (a buffer) because a handful of factories in China were shut down as part of an unrelated environmental crackdown. Even consumables like pipette tips can become scarce, as we're currently seeing with Covid.
Even before you get to trust and quality issues with some foreign sourced raw materials, the basic reality is that 'buy American' makes a lot of sense for making for a more robust and predictable supply of raw materials.
Aye, shipping times and potential of being stuck in customs made us prefer EU suppliers back when I was involved with supply chain as well. If we sent equipment for maintenance/ calibration to the US it'd easily be out for 3-4 weeks, which isn't great for critical equipment. Local supplier is same day shipping, or they just send their technician by. Overall trust and experience would be more important though, so we'd select a foreign supplier over a local one if we had bad experiences. Made Brexit relatively easy, only had two British suppliers. One moved to NL, and we wanted to stop working with the second anyway because they had shitty service.
I also try to buy my and veg locally sourced, but that's morev for environmental reasons. And prefer to buy from local stores rather than, say, buy from Amazon, mainly because I'd like those local stores to stay open.
That sounds more racist to be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
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Originally Posted by Flixy
My store has a large seasonal display for "Americana." Buncha US-flag themed material as 4th of July decorations. None of it is made in the US :haha:
I know. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Flixy
On the flip side, government contracts that seem to have to balance lowest bid with locally owned made for nothing but headaches trying to get our newest library in a state that we could open to the public.