Bayard Winthrop
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31 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 27 Feb
Bayard Winthrop’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You might think on the face of it that I would be an anti-Walmart person, but boy, do I value a company like that that has taken a stand.
They reached out and said, would you fly out to Bentonville and talk to us? We were having a hard time on the textile side of things. We'd love to, you clearly have figured something out. We'd love to learn from you. And so I went and we had this conversation that began, you know, what ended up being a year and a half long process.
What they did is they said, listen, we're going to have purchase orders that you can count on. And you can take those purchase orders down into your supply chain and talk to your suppliers that this isn't just words, this is real. And that changed the conversation fundamentally.
Things like automated label setting machines, buying screen printing machines so we could bring that in-house and have that piece of the business verticalized. Things like that that allowed us to be more cost efficient faster.
100%.
Yep.
When cloth is knitted, it's typically knitted as like a flat bit of cloth, or you can knit it in a tube. That's called tubular knits. It eliminates the sewing steps that are required, like side seam sewing on the side of your garment. The shirt that you're wearing, likely, if you run your hand down, your armpit down to your waist, you'll feel a sewed seam there.
And those are two operations that we've eliminated in the shirt because it's already done.
Well, it's a great question. I mean, I think making stuff in America is really hard. I mean, it's hard because I think that in textiles, the supply chain has become so disaggregated and atomized. On the other hand, I think when you have a framework that provides some consistency of demand and time, it's not so hard.
It's hard, but possible. And I think it really comes down to, you know, I think I can't stand this question about, you know, I hear, oh, you can't make that in America anymore. It's like, what are you talking about? Like, I hear that all the time, Jess. I hear it on every category. It's like, that's just horseshit. Like, get out into some factories, talk to some people and find out.
Now, whether you can make it for the same price you can make it in China, that's a different conversation. But can you do it here? Of course, of course you can. Of course you can.
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