Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
by Diederich on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:28PM
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I can't recall (and probably didn't know at the time...it was far from my area) where products were sourced for the Indonesia stores.
Prior to the early 2000s, WalMart had a strong 'buy American' push. It was even in their advertising at the time, and literally written on the walls at the home office in Bentonville.
Realities changed, though, as whole classes of products were more frequently simply not available from the United States, and that policy and advertising approach were quietly dropped.
Just for the hell of it, I did a quick youtube search: "walmart buy american advertisement" and this came up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-GqDeLfI4 "Buy American - Walmart Ad". Description says it's from the 1980s, and that looks about right.
Prior to the early 2000s, WalMart had a strong 'buy American' push. It was even in their advertising at the time, and literally written on the walls at the home office in Bentonville.
Realities changed, though, as whole classes of products were more frequently simply not available from the United States, and that policy and advertising approach were quietly dropped.
Just for the hell of it, I did a quick youtube search: "walmart buy american advertisement" and this came up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-GqDeLfI4 "Buy American - Walmart Ad". Description says it's from the 1980s, and that looks about right.