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Now Wal-Mart wants to revive the US manufacturing base

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Published Sun, Jul 19, 2015 · 09:50 PM

    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.

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