"What should a shirt cost?" by Joanna Weiss | Globe Columnist, May 19, 2013
What’s a shopper to do?
Cambodia, where a shoe factory collapsed on Thursday, killing several workers....
Related: U.S. Retailers Backing Out of Bangladesh
Consumers say they won’t change their shopping habits after last month’s factory collapse in Bangladesh, which killed more than 1,100 people. That might not be callousness so much as confusion: Many people are conflicted, but also perplexed. Do you boycott Bangladesh, or would a collapse of the garment industry hurt the Bangladeshis more? Can you trust multinational companies to police their factory floors? And if you skip out on a pair of cargo pants, does it make a sound?
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$144 for a made-in-America oxford shirt?
Actually, I was told it would add ten cents, but I $uppose if it is all for the greater good(?).
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