Economics

If Wal-Mart Can't Bring Manufacturing Back to America, How Can Trump?

  • Retailer’s $250 billion plan has limited impact on employment
  • Manufacturers say they can only re-shore by using fewer people
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been good to America’s Great Horned Owl. Not the real bird -- the plastic one.

As part of a much-hyped effort to bring factory jobs back to the U.S., Wal-Mart persuaded tiny Dalen Products, of Knoxville, Tennessee, to shift production of the garden scarecrow back home from China. The only catch: not many jobs followed.