China is a billion people economy, it's a strong opinion to say that "everything out of china is the same crap". You can order anything for manufacture there at

China is a billion people economy, it's a strong opinion to say that "everything out of china is the same crap". You can order anything for manufacture there at any quality point and nobody forces a dept store to order the exact same clothes from the exact same factory (out of tens of thousands factories) as the neighbour store. I'd attribute it to laziness. I mean, they might actually DO check where the neighbour store orders from and order the same.. :) Then again all the clothing stores where I live have inventory and different sizes and definitely sell different things than the other stores so I guess this trend is not universal hopefully..