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I wonder how many of these other big public and multinational companies are selling stuff that they have no idea how its produced but as long as it cheap they don't give a ****?
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Do you want to pay £2.50 for a tee-shirt in Asda or £15 ?
That is the choice we as consumers have to make and do make on a regular basis which is why there are tee-shirts available for £2.50 , I don't see how any reasonable person can blame the sellers , suppliers or manufacturers when it is the consumers choices that perpetuate these sorts of activities .
That is the choice we as consumers have to make and do make on a regular basis which is why there are tee-shirts available for £2.50 , I don't see how any reasonable person can blame the sellers , suppliers or manufacturers when it is the consumers choices that perpetuate these sorts of activities .
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Re: Boohoo
I buy £5 T shirts from Next. I trust Next to have higher morals than places like Boohoo. I don't know why I have that trust but I do.
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Re: Boohoo
I've got better things to do than get into a moral dilemma over how or where a t-shirt is made, TBH. You go down that path & nothing will ever get done, or made.
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Re: Boohoo
There are only £2.50 tee shirts available because manufacturers and retailers are prepared to turn a blind eye to working practices legislation and indeed slavery.
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Re: Boohoo
You cant know where or how a garment is made. The labelling system is very poor. You would expect items marked as made in the UK weren't made using slave Labour
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Re: Boohoo
What a lot of crap.D41 wrote:I've got better things to do than get into a moral dilemma over how or where a t-shirt is made, TBH. You go down that path & nothing will ever get done, or made.
I regularly choose a high quality locally (Australia/NZ) made product over cheaper, slave labour derived products. I don’t profess to be able to do that 100% of the time but it is a major consideration in a lot of what I buy.
Watch this in its entirety D, cheap stuff below it’s actual value and cost of manufacture means someone is losing out somewhere. And it’s generally the most vulnerable.
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Good to see your intellectual response was about as much as what I was expecting.D41 wrote:Boohoo.
A welcoming effect of COVID in Australia is there is now a big push to have manufacturing back in Australia for a lot of imported products. And it’s only for the fact that nearly every consumer has been affected by lack of supply from imports that they’ll consider taking a hit to the pocket to regain that security. Well that’s my hope anyway.
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That would require empathykiwikrasher wrote:Good to see your intellectual response was about as much as what I was expecting.D41 wrote:Boohoo.
A welcoming effect of COVID in Australia is there is now a big push to have manufacturing back in Australia for a lot of imported products. And it’s only for the fact that nearly every consumer has been affected by lack of supply from imports that they’ll consider taking a hit to the pocket to regain that security. Well that’s my hope anyway.
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Re: Boohoo
To a point I would agree with that but many items you just have to look at them and ask yourself how is it possible to sell that item at that price , the £2.50 tee is a good example .Kwacky wrote:You cant know where or how a garment is made. The labelling system is very poor. You would expect items marked as made in the UK weren't made using slave Labour
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