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Farmer-Rick

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11. I'm surprised there are still furniture makers inside the US

Reply to Pete Ross Junior (Original post)

Sat Nov 26, 2022, 03:11 PM

Nov 2022

Most furniture factories moved overseas, China mostly, in 2008 because of the cheap labor. I had friends layed off in North Carolina, in 2008 that didn't find new jobs for at least 5 years.

But there are still some furniture factories in North Carolina, just not as many as used to be there. But most of those companies bring in partially processed furniture wood from China and don't build as much from scratch as they used to.

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United Furniture Industries laid off all 2,700 workers while they were sleeping [View all] Pete Ross Junior Nov 2022 OP

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I'm surprised there are still furniture makers inside the US Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #11