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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Walmart is the world's largest corporation. It's size dictates the way the global economy does business -- period. My father ran a household name (everyone in the US knows it) manufacturing company in the US. When they lost their contract with Walmart because they refused to continue to lower the cost of their product, which was already causing a loss at the company or to make a cheaper product, Walmart said good riddance. They then gave the contract to a small manufacturer in Indonesia.

What happened to this extremely large manufacturing company? Well, after the loss of the Walmart contract, my father laid off 400 employees immediately. Over a two year period, he oversaw the shut down of the last US manufacturing plant of this company.

The plant was put up for sale. An Indian manufacturing company purchased the guts of the plant. They literally bought almost everything inside the plant, including bricks that were needed to make certain items. What didn't they buy?  Anything that protected the environment. The left behind the machines that took the lead out of the air, they left behind the equipment that tested the water before it left the facility which would monitor for mercury, etc.

This is just one example of a once premier US brand that no longer exists in the US. This is what we are paying for in the lower prices. Study after study shows that most Americans just want their cheap socks and underwear.

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Bummer. The brand just went belly up, huh, rather than move overseas and continue operation?

Regardless, yes, I like my cheap Tylenol, ziplock and cotton blend socks.  I do not wish to overpay .30 more an item for these things so 1. "Your father" can maintain an executive salary of x+1 and  (2) so that Kenny in Ohio can hang onto his job manufacturing socks.  Kenny needs to retrain in IT or health care.

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I'm a Christian, and what you wrote is completely contrary to my religion. I believe in helping others, even if there's a cost to me. If it were simple to retrain workers, and cheap, there wouldn't be loads of laid-off, unemployed, partly-employed, underemployed workers whose manufacturing jobs moved overseas.

The price of those cheap socks and other goods is too high for the environment and for the good of our social fabric in this country. Pay more for goods made by ompanies that treat their employees fairly and pay them well enough to live decently. Those crappy socks you love so much were made by workers who barely have enough to eat, have no decent housing, no access to health care, no health insurance, no future. I couldn't wear those things in good conscience. [/quote]

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