OT Do you care were the products you buy are made

[narf poit chez BOOM]

doesn't sound risk-free.

[Growltigger]

You are all missing one other rather nasty side effect of Walmart's low prices for goods.

Sure they pay their staff peanuts. Sure they take the cheapest option at all times, but what do the cheap prices mean?

It means they stiff their suppliers, and use their buying power to force down the prices the farmers and manufacturers can charge for their goods, reducing in turn their profit element, and reducing the amount of cash they have to support their businesses, and in turn pay their workers.

My advice? go for quality, not cheapness of goods - a farmer near me was a major supplier to Tesco and Asda (owned by Walmart in the UK). HE got so fed up with being told what he would charge that he withdrew from his supply arrangements, and decided to open hs own shop and concentrate on low-volume high quality produce, all organic. Now? Sainsburys ARE BEGGING HIM to supply products, and he can take them to the neogitating table! bloody good effort for him

[Loser]

Originally posted by Growltigger:

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Originally posted by Loser:
Few things are as entertaining and without risk as flirting with married (or otherwise firmly attached) women.

I totally agree with you loser, but the problem happens when what you thought was a firmly attached woman decides that she rather likes you after all so much that she would risk all and/or ditch her partner!!

Trying to disengage from one of those positions is one of the hardest things I know

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I've only gotten in a situation that might have been close to this once. I leaned on an odd bit of reputation that I may not deserve (that I am a control freak and have compulsion to rationalize romantic situations) and worked into a joke that I would not have anything to do with an S.O. of a friend for four months after the breakup. In the joke I also pointed out that this pretty much takes care of the issue permanently, as no girl seeing a friend of mine is going to go without a man for four months.

Really, it was all in fun, I think...

[DavidG]

Is there such a thing as a large chain of department stores that doesn't use practices similar to those of Walmart?

I know there is a small local store in my town that is very particalar about where there clothes come from but I have a bit of a problem paying $180 for a shirt that I can get at a department store of abut $30. I'd really like to buy stuff from stores like this but the price difference is so extreme.

[Growltigger]

Loser, know what you mean. I have unfortunately been in the situation where some ribald flirting with a couple of colleagues/secretaries, has led to the situation where they have developed a crush on me (god forbid, are they blind? do they have no taste?) and have decided that they want a red-hot extra-marital consignment of fresh English sausage - now that is a bloody hard situation to get out of if you dont want the girl to turn into a bunny boiler