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Originally Posted by Ankh
I beg to disagree. The times are different.
When Japan was paving the way to economic heights, they competed with the quality goods made elsewhere. That quality comes with the price tag, and it seems that most of us are not ready to pay for it these days. We've gotten rich enough to buy cheap things.
The "dollar shop" mentality is our fault, IMHO.
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Sad but true.
What I can't figure out is how the Chinese can be making any money of most Dollar Store items. Take a sugar container made of glass. Prior to 2008 these were sold to the Dollar store by a distributer for 37 cents and the price leapt about that time to 67 cents. How can a sugar container be manufactured, packed in boxes, shipped to a barge, barged across the ocean to Canada, be shipped to a distributer who probably marks them up 100% and then sells to the Dollar store for 67 cents. I know it can be done, because they do it.
Boggles my mind.
Helen