News – The CDC recalled more than 600,000 toys today. All were made in China and include more of the popular Thomas the train.
American consumers can stop this now! STOP buying all items made in China. The companies will pay attention when their bottom line is impacted.
Unless the public is willing to stand up and say ENOUGH this will never end
It would stop when the CEOs stop receiving multi-million dollar salaries for doing nothing. They aren't the inventors or engineers and they don't do the marketing, but they command huge salaries for doing nothing.
Wrong answer. Don't pass the buck to some distant CEO. You the consumer have all the power. It is very simple. If you don't buy the product, there are no multi-million dollar salaries.
In that case, all companies would go broke, because almost every product has at least one part made overseas, and the consumers won't have any products to buy.
I was specifically addressing items made in China - that is where the majority of recalls are coming from.
Why American consumers fail to recognize that they have the power to change this is beyond me!
American company's can try to cover their backside with as many phony apologies imaginable but the bottom line is that the only thing that will make a difference in the end is to hit them where it hurts, in the pocket! Don't give them your money until they commit to providing us a worthy product! One made here in the USA!
More cheap, dangerous junk from the militaristic nation with an appalling human rights record, and, with the most polluted air on Earth, has the gall to demand that we sign the Kyoto Treaty.
Wake up people. Look at the label before you buy junk for your brats. Stop supporting China and the companies that do business with them (Wal-Mart, Mattel). Buy American for crying out loud, and help out our own economy and our own workers. It may cost a bit more in the short term, but in the long run, we'll ALL be better off.
This can be used as a wakeup call for the young. The reason all of the other countries are more educated then we are is because their parents do not give them toys.
Time to put all foolishness aside. Put your twaddlers on the p.c to learn calculus and chemistry.
Toys are a waste. They end up in the trash sooner or later.
1. Take ALL the toys and kids' stuff made in China off the shelves.
2. Check it all out and put back on the shelves what is tested to be safe.
3. Begin IMMEDIATELY to test products for shipment to the US IN CHINA and do not allow unsafe products to be shipped here.
I do not hold the Chinese responsible for this, importing dangerous goods is the problem. We can have no control over what is produced, but we by golly can get to those responsible for their being here.
The American companies provide the specs for every one of their products to the Chinese, and if anybody knows anything about the Chinese, they follow the specs to the letter.
How something is produced and what it is made of is between the contracting entity and the producer. Not my business. How it gets on the WallMart shelves is up to the importer and the distributor and the retailer. Mucho my business. Leave the Chinese out of it. The culprits are American/multinational corporations.
Agreed.
Although the Chinese aren't exactly protectors of human safety and rights...
People are a cheap commodity when you have more of them than you can readily feed. A circumstance which should be taken into account when you decide to hire such people. I still maintain that YOU are responsible for what YOU bring or have brought into this country, and YOU are responsible for goods YOU put on YOUR shelves for the public to buy. The Chinese have NO PART in this.
You morons just don't understand basic business and corporate principles.
Employees are a liability, not an asset. They are are drain on profits. The cheaper the goods I import, the more profit I can make. China, Indonesia, I don't care, Walmart will take all I can import and customers fight each other to save a buck. The fewer employees I need to distribute these imported goods, the better. I NEVER pay for benefits that the few employees I have can pay for themselves. If they don't like it or can't live on what I pay them, tough. They can quit whenever they want since I have an unlimited pool of undocumented workers to choose from that will work for minimum wage. My President, G.B., keeps our borders open, and has given me huge incentives to outsource and has cut both my personal and corporate taxes by thousands! This enables me to send most of my profits to my offshore accounts. Hey, it's just business, don't take it personally.
Listen to your President. Go shopping!
"Employees are a liability, not an asset"
Is this something new?
The consumer still has all the power. Does any successful company continue to produce a product that they cannot sell? If nobody buys it, the company will stop trying to sell it. It does not get any more simple than that.
That's why they have marketing and advertising pushing all your emotional triggers to make you want to buy a product because it offers a bunch of stuff it can't deliver, usually social status and prestige, sexual attractiveness and magnetism too, or even just more money left in your pocket once its in the bag.
All of the power is in the hands of the consumer. Unless of course the consumer is a hypnotized droid that cannot think for himself.
Ah, I see you've made a breakthrough!!
The truth is not too far from it. People are influenced by friends, family, culture and government. How these influences are categorized is what marketing and advertising people call demographics. They're measured by your age, sex, education, occupation, locality, race, socio-economic group. Online questionaires we all bump into are about measuring a market to determine the best way to break through its defenses and make it spend.
This is what mostly makes up our culture today. It's a consumerist culture, and it kicks butt. I don't see too many people opting out of the consumerist race to not have the latest this or that. What I do see is queues of people that stretch for blocks and days to buy the new iPhone or the latest Playstation. And you're trying to convince us that the consumer has the power. Maybe, if they were more savvy and didn't give in to making purchases for reasons that are more than just wanting or needing it.
Just to conclude, your argument has a simplistic logic too it, but it's also very naive and doesn't consider the often contradictory complexity of human beings and what motivates them to buy something. Meanwhile, marketing and advertising make it their speciality to take just that and only that into account.
If a person is too weak-minded to make their own decisions then they deserve what they get. There is way too much buck passing in our culture. It is always someone else's fault for all the problems. Marketeers and advertisers are just out there searching for the brainless people who are susceptable to suggestion and siezing the opportunity to sell something to them. If you think that drinking Coors beer will make you cool and get you bikini models, then go get 'em tiger.
Why be so defensive? I would hope that you are intelligent enough to realize that there are enough "brainless people" out there who buy a lot of Coors beer or any other product. I have complete confidence that you're one of them. I think you know it too.
Companies don't burn billions of dollars every year in marketing and advertising to sell to just a few brainless people. To them it's like dragnet fishing. They do it because it works.
Why be so offensive? Why don't you expect people to take responsibility for their own actions? Why do you expect the worst from people?
Do brainless people need some sort of government appointed guardian angel to protect them from doing stupid things?
One step closer to the liberal utopia of a nanny state.
WHAT GIVES - are there rules on how we may get poisend
Interestingly the US has some if not the most stringent laws when it comes to xtoys, yet we rate among the highest in children death rates, we have all kinds of food and drug rules, yet have a below average life expectancy of industrial nations. We are worried about toxic paint, but have no problem feeding our people questionable food from genetic/hormone feed animals and plants w/ chemical additives some known as toxic
I am going to p*** a few people off, but we are dumping out the baby with the bath water. Yes lead is toxic, however most of us 40 grew up with it all around us and managed to get this old just fine.
Waterpipes until ten years ago were soldered with lead. There is lead exposure all around us, and though I agree in minimizing it, I don't see the need for this huge 'panic' - because I am curious what it realy adds to the true overall exposure.
Yes check into the toys, but don't just recal on a possibility
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Here's what I would say ... it will never end! For various reasons ... I mean, we can apologize all we want (Mattel apologized to China, right) but realistically ... it's "you get what you pay for." We want cheap cheap cheap and that means cut corners.