Warning: Walmart Sandals

[TheBrauerHour]

http://www.lamanaphotography.com/walmart.htm

If you know anyone buying sandals from Walmart, you may wish to have them look at this. Hope none of you got burned.

[joea]

Ugh I have sensitive skin and suffer from eczema already, anyway those are not my colour.

[XabbaRus]

Wow,
Well maybe we should stop getting stuff made in China, but it is cheap
Over here we would have to pay the people a decent wage and pay more, we can't do that can we?

[TteFAboB]

That was scary! The guy waited all those days to take meds? He just wanted it to eat his foot off so he could sue Walmart or something? I'd go to the doc the same day!

[The Avon Lady]

I could not find the bottom line in that long page. Was the source of the inflamtion determined?

Horrible!

[SUBMAN1]

And you wonder why I go out of my way not to buy things made in China? They taint their food, and not they even taint their footwear! Nice.

-S

PS. Ever heard the term - you get what you paid for? Now we are starting to see the results of our cheapness. I partly blame this lady for buying Chineese crap in the first place.

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

PS. Ever heard the term - you get what you paid for? Now we are starting to see the results of our cheapness. I partly blame this lady for buying Chineese crap in the first place.

Not the same thing. Paying cheap and getting a lousy product that breaks is one thing. Winding up in the hospital just for using it normally is quite another.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

Not the same thing. Paying cheap and getting a lousy product that breaks is one thing. Winding up in the hospital just for using it normally is quite another.

Not really. This is the ultimate of cheapness - going to the hospital. Chemical burns are happening because the damn Chinese factory used a cheaper, known volitile chemical in the plastic, possibly the impregnated color, so they could shave a few pennies off its production. So I have to disagree with you.

-S

[Heibges]

That's why I've been wearing Teva's for 20 years.

http://www.teva.com/index.aspx

Update:

http://www.jibjab.com/originals/big_box_mart

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Not really. This is the ultimate of cheapness - going to the hospital. Chemical burns are happening because the damn Chinese factory used a cheaper, known volitile chemical in the plastic, possibly the impregnated color, so they could shave a few pennies off its production. So I have to disagree with you.

I think the difference is that "you get what you pay for" should have a different meaning, depending whether you're in China or in N. America, Europe, etc. Normally, there are legal checks and balances that would prevent this. Only now are foreign investors beginning to realize that high risk of Chinese made product recalls.

This is the last thing that WalMart needs. The Chinese manufacturer will have a greater chance of getting away with it or getting slapped on the wrists, if he's oiled the local municipal adminstrators well.

This past Businessweek's main story was on the problems and dangers of such Chinese fiascos. The news is spreading and companies are beginning to correctly estimate the potential consequences of keeping 2 steps ahead of Chinese engineers.

This shouldn't happen to a dog. But, as we know from another thread, a dog's life in China may end up on someone's dinner plate.

[Jimbuna]

Not really. This is the ultimate of cheapness - going to the hospital. Chemical burns are happening because the damn Chinese factory used a cheaper, known volitile chemical in the plastic, possibly the impregnated color, so they could shave a few pennies off its production.

Precisely .....I blame the authorities for not checking the quality of what is being imported