Never bought from Temu or Shien, and getting so buy fewer and fewer items from Amazon. Books, mostly, and brand names they don’t have locally in brick & mortars(usually out-of-season items. Somehow, develop bronchitis/pneumonia in mid-summer. Haven’t been miserable until coughing your guts out when its 112 degrees in the shade,outdoors, can’t stand to cover yourself w/ a quilt/coverlet)
Can buy cheap Chinese junk at every store in town, 5-10 minutes away without paying shipping. CVS, Walgreens, Target, Wal-Mart-started this in their quest for the inexpensive to lure customers. Now it’s Mexican-made, 90 minutes down I-19, Taiwanese-made, India-made.
If America is gonna lure back manufacturing. gonna have to deal w/ the unions. My youngest brother, a Master Electrician for 40 years, specializes in Paint-Robotics at GM, makes a cool quarter mill. yearly. True, he works all kinds of hours and often a 50-hour work-week but still…this is an hourly guy, not salaried. He took off a week to comfort our dying mother and I thought his work-place would grind to a halt, constant phone calls and texts from superiors/replacements.
Manufacturing people, trades-workers, are aging out-and few, despite the potential high salaries, want to replace them If can’t/won’t manufacture it, can’t retail it as AMERICAN-MADE!