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Penneys/Primark BBC Investigation

  • 23-06-2008 10:25pm
    #1
    ironingbored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭


    Anybody got any thoughts on this programme?


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  • #2
    doubledown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 804 ✭✭✭doubledown


    Sensationalist nonsense. Showing customers video footage on a laptop and asking them how they felt about their clothes now - laughable.

    Primark are a very easy target now that they have had such success in Britain.

    There is no way a company can keep an eye on everything their suppliers are doing thousands of miles away. And when Primark discovered the truth, they stopped doing business with the suppliers in question. No business of that size in this day and age would knowingly employ people like that as they know they would be found out and that ultimately would be bad for business. Once these issues were brought to their attention they rectified the situation. End of story.

    I would say that if anyone delved deep enough into the supply chain of ANY high street clothing manufacturer they would uncover very similar situations.


  • #3
    ironingbored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭ironingbored


    There was one comment that says a lot about modern western society and world affairs. When he said we fight over cheap clothes while the women of India fight over water. Shows who has their priorities right. Strange also is how we in the western world get poorer people to clothe us while over there they make their own clothes (infinitely more beautiful than our own) probably on their day off.


  • #4
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    doubledown wrote: »
    Sensationalist nonsense. Showing customers video footage on a laptop and asking them how they felt about their clothes now - laughable.

    Primark are a very easy target now that they have had such success in Britain.

    There is no way a company can keep an eye on everything their suppliers are doing thousands of miles away. And when Primark discovered the truth, they stopped doing business with the suppliers in question. No business of that size in this day and age would knowingly employ people like that as they know they would be found out and that ultimately would be bad for business. Once these issues were brought to their attention they rectified the situation. End of story.

    I would say that if anyone delved deep enough into the supply chain of ANY high street clothing manufacturer they would uncover very similar situations.

    foreign sweatshops don't happen by accident


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