By Trish Regan
AN AMERICAN MANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE
This time last year, I was scouring grocery stores (as well as Amazon, and even Ebay) for any spare containers of Lysol or Clorox or any other industrial strength cleaning product I could get my hands on. I thought I’d nearly struck gold one Sunday afternoon when a trip to Home Depot yielded me two whole bottles of Clorox. “We just got the shipment in,” the salesclerk explained with excitement as she rushed to put the bottles out on display... almost as quickly as the customers grabbed them from the store’s shelves.
“Remember,” she called out, “only two per customer!”
As I pushed off my cart with those two precious bottles of cleaner, I asked myself a few questions, “How is it that months after the onset of the pandemic, we’re still facing a run on these disinfectants? Why are we still struggling with a supply issue? And why are we needing to ration a product that is so simple and cheap to manufacture?”
The answer was – and is – quite simple: our foreign supply chain.
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