As reported on the Blade Forum, Taylor, an importer of Chinese knives, bought Schrade's name, after buying Schrade's bank notes forcing them into bankrupty, to put Schrade's name on their imported knive's. This is after Walmart dropped most of Schrade's knife line. This is the reason I do not shop at Walmart, nor will buy Taylor knives.
When will the bleeding of American manufacturers end?
Let me get this straight. Based on something you read on another forum and not based on any real or known information, you have stopped shopping at WalMart and won't buy a particular brand of knives. Is that right?
That is a amazing. So Shrade is now supposedly an inferior product, if I am understanding this, and Walmart has dropped this inferior product from sale. So why the boycott of Walmart?
When will the bleeding of American manufactures end? Probably about the time that the general populace understands world economy. American manufactures have some real competition problems in the global economy. We have high wages per worker and so the bottomline cost of our products runs higher than for many products produced elsewhere. In many cases, we have old toolings. Japan has been producing steel at such a reduced price that they can produce it and ship it half way around the world for less than what some American companies can do.
Of course some wil argue, sometimes factually and sometimes not, that American products are better quality. That is fine, but the quality of the product does not necessarily mean market or market share will be maintained. The market may not want higher quality and higher priced items. The market may be satisfied with something less expensive and sometimes of less quality, sometimes not.
This aspect of what the market will bear really comes through when we read of people's gun buying decisions. Not everyone wants, needs, or can afford a top of the line Les Baer 1911, beautifully put together, accurate, and expensive. For a couple of grand less, some settle for a Glock, not nearly as pretty, but reliable. Some settle for a NAA mini revolver. Some settle for a Kel-Tec P32, something I consider to be about as close as you come to a disposable pistol.