Wal-Mart, Gap, Other U.S. Brands Ready $50M Bangladesh Safety Fund: WSJ

By Lindsey Rupp | June 27, 2013

  • June 27, 2013 at 2:30 pm
    Libby says:
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    Talk about a knee-jerk reaction! The horse has left the barn, people. What about all the other factories in all the other countries just like Bangladesh? Do we have to wait for a fire before we put a fund together for them, too?

    • June 27, 2013 at 4:34 pm
      Just a Mom says:
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      Or, how about we buy American Made where the factories are required to be safe already?

  • June 27, 2013 at 2:43 pm
    Amy B. Toland says:
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    I can not believe no one responded to this article. Why doesn’t Walmart, GAP amd other US companies invest $50 Million Dollars in the US ecomony. I will bet that the fire that took place in Bangladeshesh was covered under US policies and probably for the full amount. The companies are worried that the rebulding be done to proper standards. There are no standards in Bangladesch, if they built in the United States everything would be up to code.

    This is why there is a 7% unemployment rate in the US,
    Let’s wake up ad smell the roses, we are currently working to become a third world country, with all of our rights being taken away.

    Write your Senator and Congressmen and tell them we have had enough!
    They are cutting our military, unemployments is cut by 22.2 starting June 30th 2013. I could go on and on!!
    I can’t stand to watch the news or read a newspaper because of what this administration is doing to US.
    I feel better that I vented.

  • June 27, 2013 at 6:22 pm
    Baxtor says:
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    Does Wal-mart and these other companies own these foreign factories? If so, they have an obligation to keep them safe. If they do not and are just buying their products, then it’s really the factories and their governments job to make them safe and if that means higher prices, then higher prices. When we as consumers buy something, do we check to see where exactly it was made and how safe their factory is? If these companies are at fault, then so are we (again I state if these companies don’t own the factories).



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