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Government Helped CIT Limp Along Long Enough To Keep From Ruining Christmas
According to SpendMatters, one big reason the government burned through $2.3 billion in TARP funds for CIT even though it was buckling under debt was to try to avoid ruining everybody’s Christmas this...
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OB Tampons Reappearing On Shelves
Looks like o.b. brand tampons, missing from shelves for months because of an unspecified Johnson & Johnson “supply chain interruption,” are slowly making their way back into stores. The company...
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Ken Dumps Barbie After Learning She's Into Deforestation
Last week, Ken broke up with Barbie after finding out some of the paper in her packaging comes from a Singapore company, Asian Pulp & Paper (APP), they accuse of clearcutting rain forests and...
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How Many Slaves Work For You?
There’s a decent chance that slaves have handled something you own. The coltan in your smartphone. The beans in that coffee you’re sipping. The cotton in the underwear you’re sitting in. All around the...
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Apple Condemns BBC Reports About Factory And Tin Supplier Conditions
Earlier this week, the BBC aired an hourlong documentary program on conditions for workers in factories assembling Apple products in China, and conditions in tin mines in Indonesia that supply Apple....
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9 Things We Learned About Patagonia’s Efforts To Avoid All Exploited Labor
(Cheri Sundra)You can’t avoid it: along the entire supply chain of everything that you wear, someone has most likely been exploited. Just ask outdoorwear company Patagonia, which performed audits in...
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Report: Only Some Progress In Making Sure Clothing Factory Workers Are...
Three years ago, after a building collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,100 of the people who were making our clothes, major global retailers pledged to make sure that the people who work for their suppliers...
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It Takes Dozens Of Companies To Make Your iPhone
Where does your mobile phone actually come from? What company makes it? How many people — how many businesses, how many factories, how many hands — were involved in its making? Most of us probably have...
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Here’s Why The Reddi-Wip Shortage Is Extra Sad
If you’ve been looking for canned whipped cream from Reddi-wip or other brands for your holiday celebrations, you may have come home empty-handed. Canned whipped cream is in short supply right now, and...
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Whole Foods Closes Regional Kitchens, Says It Isn’t Related To Sanitation...
For prepared food items in its stores along the East Coast, Whole Foods uses regional kitchens, each of which cooks various in-house items and distributes them to dozens of stores. The company recently...
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H&M Has Too Much Stuff, Needs To Get Rid Of It At Discount
As we’ve been reporting for some time now, it’s hard out there for retailers trying to compete for customers. H&M has had a particularly tough time competing in “fast fashion,” what with its late...
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Gildan Knows Some American Apparel Customers Don’t Care About ‘Made In USA’
When American Apparel, a brand known for making all of its clothing at factories in Los Angeles, was sold to Canadian clothing giant Gildan, it was obvious that some clothing sold under the brand would...
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