Now Wal-Mart wants to revive the US manufacturing base
Bentonville, Arkansas
THE group cheer at Wal-Mart's third annual US manufacturing summit - convened to find more American-made products - was greeted with a voice from another era.
"Almost anything can be made by Americans, in this country, and be done efficiently," founder Sam Walton said in a grainy black-and-white video clip from the 1980s, explaining Wal-Mart's mission to buy more products at home.