I heard back finally from two of the people I emailed, Hallmark and Marshall's. Here is the brief email to Hallmark I sent:
Hi! I am wondering, for a company as large as yours, why is it necessary for you make your cards in China. I understand you are a worldwide company, but why cannot your American cards be made in America? I anticipate your response. Thank you very much for your time.
Their response.....
Hello Annmarie,
Thank you for contacting Hallmark.
We are sorry to hear that you are not satisfied with one of our Hallmark products. To clarify, most of our greeting cards are produced within an hour of our Kansas City headquarters. We have manufacturing plants in Lawrence and Leavenworth, Kansas. A subsidiary near Columbus, Georgia also handles some Hallmark manufacturing. Cards that require handwork, such as adding beads or tassels, are typically made by suppliers in Asia. This includes cards with sound and recordable features and most holiday boxed cards.
Safe products are of paramount concern to Hallmark. We want to ensure that consumers are comfortable knowing our products are safe to buy and use, no matter where the materials are made. Hallmark has rigorous quality specifications and routinely tests our products to ensure we are in compliance with all safety and regulatory requirements.
We appreciate your interest in Hallmark and hope we were able to help you.
Thanks,
Hallmark Consumer Care
Iam very excited that they responded back but must disagree with them. The card that I went to purchase was a plain unembellished card, see below:
It's nice that most of their cards are here but not 100%. They probably were surprised with the email and didn't know how to answer. All I can say is check your cards to see where they are made and try to buy the Hallmarks that are Made in the USA!
I heard back from Marshalls. It was the standard, thank you for writing, we will send you email to the appropriate department. This is the letter I wrote:
Hi! My name is Annmarie Palumbo. Last year, I was tired of constantly seeing all my clothing not made in this country and vowed for the month of July to only buy "made in America" items. It was tough but my family and I did and and learned from our experience. This year we are doing it again! The TODAY show found out about what I was doing and I went on last week to talk about my story. I went to your Marshalls store in Oceanside, NY to try locate clothing. I was able last year to locate some items. I was pleasantly surprised to find more than I thought! The vendors I found that were made in America: Olivia moon, green envelope and etc..... I wanted to say thank you for carrying American made clothing, it is very hard to find clothes made here in any store. I was wondering if you would take a suggestion? I am not the only person that would like to buy American Clothing. Would you consider putting all your American vendors on one rack or in one section and publicize that it is an American vendor? It took me almost 2 hours in your store reading each label. I guarantee if you did this, sales of those items would increase. 60% of Americans would be willing to pay more for items knowing that are made here than ones made out of country. Please share this with corporate and PR or whoever you feel would be able to address this. I would love to here back from someone with their thoughts on this. Thank you so much for your time and thank you for carrying American made clothing!
Annmarie Palumbo
Their response, nothing special but is am hoping to hear from corporate. I am trying to be an optimist and actually hoping that they are sitting around a table going - we got this crazy email from this girl - lets try it! Flash forward to next summer and a small Made in America section all decked out in red, white and blue. If that really happens I would drop dead! But would be so happy because that would prove that this whole ordeal was for something.
Next week will be a sharing week, I'll try to find enough stuff to outfit you from head to toe - including bloomers!!
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