[Jewelry making - Article 00305] - Re: [Orchid] Weapons of mass-destruction

[Rebecca Barry]

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    Marty, while  you're enjoying lower prices and quality customer
    service Walmart has forced an American giant to close her last US
    manufacturing plant. Levi Strauss is no small independent
    organization. Walmart asked them to supply lower quality lower
    priced jeans to them, which they did. Then they were asked to lower
    their cost to Walmart another 5%, and they did. The demand was
    great, and they tried to meet it. Over a 4 year span Walmart
    generally "asks" their suppliers to lower the cost around 20%. What
    company do you know of  can continue hiring, raising salaries of
    their already employed, continue decent benefits and still survive ?
    I too need to save money wherever I can, but not at the cost of my
    fellow countrymen losing their jobs in droves. American Icons are
    being lost while we strive to save .59 cents on a pair of jeans...
    Rebecca 


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