Since this whole Wuhu flu fiasco started, I've been trying to buy local more and buy American to help out small businesses since they've been hit hardest. It really hit me how difficult it is to actually procure products sold by small businesses that are made in the US. My hair wax, for instance. It took me a whole day of researching to find hair wax that is made in the US and actually sold by a small business and not some mega corp like Amazon or Walmart.
So I bring this question to you gents. How much effort do you put into trying to buy something American made? If so, how do you go about it?
I've got some of the USA made New Balance shoes and their packaging claims to be 70% domestically sourced. So it's not perfect, but I do believe they actually physically assemble (i.e. sew or whatever) the shoes together in the USA.
That aside, this pair I'm about to retire is nearly a year old and I'm quite impressed with how well they've held up. I would have bought two pair over that time of the expensive Asian-made shoes I wore previously.