legalskier
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It's tough to do even with a conscious effort. I enjoy shopping at a certain big box store because they give priority to American made products. One woman even wrote a book about how difficult it was to accomplish over one year (A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy by Sara Bongiorni).
I saw this story in the news today- hopefully it will start a trend:
Smithsonian shop sells U.S.-made gifts
*** The Price of Freedom gift shop at the National Museum of American History began selling only American-made gifts Wednesday. The change came after Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., threatened to introduce legislation requiring taxpayer-financed museums to sell more merchandise made in this country....Sanders said that the move is a good start, but that he wants to see a greater effort to sell American-made merchandise in all Smithsonian gift stores. "It seems to me that a museum owned by the American people, designed to express our history and our greatness, should be, to as great a degree as possible, selling products made by American workers," said Sanders, who visited the gift shop Wednesday....The Smithsonian wants to see how well merchandise sells at the Price of Freedom store before committing to extending the American-made policy to other stores, Haberacker said. ***
Story: http://www.usatoday.com/money/indus...smithsonian-buy-american-products-gifts_n.htm
Would you pay a few bucks more for an American made product? Does better quality matter to you? Do you support this store's new policy?
I saw this story in the news today- hopefully it will start a trend:
Smithsonian shop sells U.S.-made gifts
*** The Price of Freedom gift shop at the National Museum of American History began selling only American-made gifts Wednesday. The change came after Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., threatened to introduce legislation requiring taxpayer-financed museums to sell more merchandise made in this country....Sanders said that the move is a good start, but that he wants to see a greater effort to sell American-made merchandise in all Smithsonian gift stores. "It seems to me that a museum owned by the American people, designed to express our history and our greatness, should be, to as great a degree as possible, selling products made by American workers," said Sanders, who visited the gift shop Wednesday....The Smithsonian wants to see how well merchandise sells at the Price of Freedom store before committing to extending the American-made policy to other stores, Haberacker said. ***
Story: http://www.usatoday.com/money/indus...smithsonian-buy-american-products-gifts_n.htm
Would you pay a few bucks more for an American made product? Does better quality matter to you? Do you support this store's new policy?