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Walmart

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Offshoring American Manufacturing

Walmart's impact is a little more ambiguously pernicious, both for the world and specifically for america. Walmar was a huge contributor at some point the surety of items sold in walmart's were made in china. They exert so much pressure for vendors to lower their prices. It led to offshoring of American manufacturing. The other thing that, whether you're making stuff in America or elsewhere, if you keep pushing down those margins, so far like youv got to use lower quality materials in your product.

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