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dpareja:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/01/22/wal-mart-warns-suppliers.html


--- Quote ---Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has alerted its global suppliers that it will immediately drop them if they subcontract their work to factories that haven't been authorized by the discounter.

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In a letter sent Tuesday to suppliers of its Wal-Mart stores as well as Sam's Clubs in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, the company says it will adopt a "zero tolerance" policy on subcontracting without the company's knowledge, effective March. 1. Previously, suppliers had three chances to rectify mistakes.
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I don't think this will change much anything, really. As long as Wal-Mart stays committed to providing really low prices, they won't really have a choice but to allow subcontracting to whatever factories can provide the cheapest costs, and we'll end up with more disasters like the factory fire in Bangladesh*, to which this was a response.

*http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/11/25/bangladesh-garment-factory-fire.html

kefkaownsall:
It's easy for Wal art use this to look good then rubber stamp the factories.  Everyone wins except for poor children

ThunderWulf:
I'm going to stay cynical about this here.  I see this solely as a PR move, and highly doubt anything will actually change.

Witchyjoshy:
To Walmart:

Sylvana:
I am also siding on the cynical here.
It sounds good on paper, but what about those suppliers who were using more reputable subcontractors and now have to use the Walmart rubber stamped Chinese sweatshops?
I honestly cant see Walmart accepting any factory that is not essentially a slave sweatshop.

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