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On 09/29/2018 03:41 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

Cost to the customer should dictate ones further away will be
less
likely to be bought, so I guess they were different carpets.

Presumably. They were all 12' rolls so I never saw the working
side.
Furniture was the same deal. There still are furniture
factories in
the
south eastern US while most of the furniture I loaded on the west
coast
was from Asia.

Other products weren't so easy to rationalize. I don't know about
the
UK
but the Sunday papers (when people still read the Sunday papers)
have
a
lot of colorful advertising brochures and other crap that most
people
strip out and use to wrap garbage. I picked up a lot of those in
Boulder
CO to take to Baltimore MD, which is about 1600 miles. Nobody on
the
east coast can print useless stuff?

The whole scheme depends on cheap transportation / cheap fuel.
Keep
those container ships and trucks rolling!

If your government put as much fuel tax on it as ours did, that
wouldn't
be happening.

It happens in Britain and the EU too.

Britain isn't big enough to travel very far.

But the EU is.

Most stuff I buy is made in the UK.

Don't believe that with the food.

It is, probably mainly because of our ****ed up government introducing
"local foods" advertising for the treehuggers to save transporting
things.
All the supermarkets seem to be proud to show off that their food is
locally grown.

Pity about the stats that show that much of the food
consumed on that soggy little frigid island is imported.

I guess I only notice the silly stuff with the British flag on the
wrapper. I don't really care where my food comes from, I go by flavour
and price.

Steak and kidney pie? Marmite? We had a store that specialized in
imported British food but it didn't last long.

The first thing that springs to mind is cheese, it's made in every country.