CHINE HAS THE MUCH PREFERED NATION TAG - IT HAS MADE A BIG DENT INTOUS MARKETS - YOU WANT TO MAKE PROUDCTS IN THE US NOW AND SELL THEM -YOU CAN NEVER BEAT THE CHINESE IN THEIR PRICES - THE MIDDLE CLASS STILLPREFER THE CHEAP CHINESE PRICES - IT IS ONLY TOO VERY LATE FOR THIS CONCEPTTO WORK- IT MAY SOUND PATRIOTIC - BUT WHO CARES

I hope to prove you wrong. There are products made here in the U.S.A. that need to be put out there in an exclusive situation. An online version is ok, but the option needs to be in their faces everyday. The complacency is due to the fact that there is currently little option. I'm offering the option.

pepindia:

I'm sure you wouldn't care. Why would I care if I were in India? Or Indian living in the U.S.A.?

Give me time and the opportunity & I will prove you wrong.

I do have the sources to market these goods. I just don't have all the financial resouces to get the momentum to turn this around. If I had the choice I would buy all American. I'll bet millions of Americans would as well. How do I get that choice? Give me the opportunity & I'll show you.

I wonder where the "Why Not" merchandise is made?Make it in the USA!

I agree that quite a few people would like to buy American-made products, but I also wonder if enough people would buy it to cover the expenses incurred in making things in the US. Even in the area of wages alone, the few pennies a day that Chinese people are willing to work are a lot lower than the almost six dollars a day minimum wage which Americans expect to get.

I understand your concern and idea, but I'm sorry to tell you that this already exist[ed]s. WAL*MART/SAM*S CLUB was originally all-American made stores, but once Sam Walton passed away and other people took over, they took in new products which were not all made in the USA. But I guess the idea would go over well, I mean, hey look at WAL*MART!

It is a good idea. With the number of unemployed rising, we need to rely on and help our neighbors by buying local products from local retailers. LEED / sustainablity encourages purchasing construction products that are manufactured and have raw materials obtained within 500 miles. I am talking about general merchandise, not construction materials.

I like your passion, but you need to loose some of the words. Lets come up with a rational business plan. There is a recently closed Borders book store down the street, something needs to go in those big storefront windows.

Hi Bob,

Overall a made in USA store is a good idea, but I see two flaw in it.-What type of products are you looking to sell, conssumer goods, automotives, green products??-how do you entend to sell, what distribution channels??

There's probably already some made in usa products, but so far I don't see one or heard of one that is standing out in its concept.Let me illustrate it with one example, if you don't mind: french cuisine is highly renewed worlwide...for good or bad raison:), from a conssumer/marketing point of view, the raison its sells well, is that the idea is based on teh fact that french restaurant offe a unique conbinaison of goods/aka recipe, that makes them unique, coupled with the fact they are based on local goods, for examples french cheese, that is produce mainly in france, but exported worlwide, same goes for wine.So if for example if we wanted to start a french store, we would start an online/offline store selling exclusivly french products for cooking, because of their unicity they will be easier to market.So if you wanted to market american products, you would need to find a products that is unique and difficult to replicate so it is easier to sell.Trying to resell conssumer goods that can be made elseqhere at cheaper cost could be done too, I guess, but it will be hard to find conssumer goods exclusively made in the USA, and to make a generale store store similar to wall-mart selling all kind of products will eb hard as well, simply becuase they will be hard to source, and you cannot garantee completly that they are made all in teh usa, a lot of goods made in teh usa, are actually made of chinese components, to an extend you wouldn't believe.One of the idea, is to focus and high teck goods designed and partly made in the USA or all-made-in USA, I'm thinking green goods, who are for the momment exploding and not manufacturable in china because they are too high teck.Those goods are starting to be in high demands, but with very few distribution center, and a high demands.Looking at the figures, this is typically a case of more demands than offer, and therefore could be a safe bet.Imagine for examples a store sellign made in usa goods such as flexible solar panels recharger, DIY wind turbine, LED lamps and so on.Living and running a sourcing comapny in Shanghai, I can tell you that there's high demands for these goods, but it is still very difficult to find them here in china.Flexible solar panels for examples are pretty hard to find, so far I found only one factory, compare to the potential demands that's nothing.So high teck green goods designed and made in the usa, with a large potential demands for it and few supply in china could be a safe bet.That's one idea, there's probably others, but that could work.The whole perspective I would keep in mind is to sell goods with one specificity, chines goods sell well because they are low cost, but french wine for instance sells rather well not because of its cost, but because of its unique designs, a feerari all made in Italia, sell well because of its unique designs as well.But I'm not sure selling conssumer goods made in usa like coffee cups will work well in my opinion because the unicity of the products you would claim, that's these goods are made in USA compare to the potential demands seems to me unlikely to win the customer heart.Its a case where you would be appealing the patriotic sens of your audience and ask them to make a choice between their wallet and their heart.Plus you got to think that selling those on the local market might not suffice...and that you will need to export them to other countries as well, who probably won't care weither a cup is made in the usa or in china??So in my mind you should rather find unique products that can be only made in the USA, and hard to find anywhere else, and the forthcoming oppotunity for it will be green products, since there is high potential demands, few offer, and the market is still up for grab.

What do you think??

Why not just make a law that applies US quality and labor standards to all imported goods? Then Nike et al. would have to pay those children in the sweatshops that they "don't own" US minimum wage, essentially making it worthless to import goods unless competitive wages are provided to the foreign manufacturers/workers.