That sucks, I feel bad for the dude. It’s not his fault that mega corporations lobbied for NAFTA/GATT and Henry Kissinger pressured Bill Clinton to sign it. Had our politicians not gone down that path and made bunch of one sided trade agreements, the shoe salesman would’ve probably been buying shoes from former American manufacturers like EJ’s to sell in his store at a reasonable markup. Almost nobody can compete against major corporations selling products in the U.S. without utilizing the same foreign manufacturers the corporations do, unless it’s a product those nations don’t make for some reason. Our politicians sold us the fuck out, and there’s no way to get around the pain we are going to have to deal with to get some of those manufacturing jobs back. We can’t afford not to do this, it’s a major national security threat to be reliant on nations who could become our enemy overnight and cut off our supply of products that are vital to the survival of millions of American lives.