Aviation story: customers of a certain well-known airplane company complained about reliability of the tiny incandescent light bulbs of the 60s. Investigation showed that packages marked Made in USA were from a town in Japan, which had the name Usa from far earlier.
(Light bulbs were a problem anyway. For aviation they were supposed to be burned in then selected to be within 15% of specified brightness. Purchase product not assured to be AS15 and you got the rejects from that selection.
Similarly, bearings for aviation products were often selected based on vibration when rolling them slowly, buy some without X suffix and you’d get the rejects with shorter life.)