03-29-2019, 05:41 AM
" . . . the crap sold in any given mainland Walmart has traveled halfway around the globe."
And the crap sold in Hawaii Walmarts goes a quarter of the way back around the globe again to get here. Those container ships filled with Chinese junk go right past here to distribution centers in California before being reshipped to us. Hawaii is not large enough a market to rate direct shipment of most Asian consumer goods, and of course the Jones Act kicks in and screws us yet again.
And the crap sold in Hawaii Walmarts goes a quarter of the way back around the globe again to get here. Those container ships filled with Chinese junk go right past here to distribution centers in California before being reshipped to us. Hawaii is not large enough a market to rate direct shipment of most Asian consumer goods, and of course the Jones Act kicks in and screws us yet again.