Am I surprised? ...... NO, should I be?

Have you ever gotten a headache from spending most of your day in disbelief at the dumb things companies do?? How people react when they finally notice? and how other people are like "hmm, whatever!", when they find out?

I got 2 of those 3 today when I read an article in the newspaper regarding the red Canadian Olympic mittens that are being pushed as a "show your support" type of thing. Supposedly they are selling quite well, and I'm all for supporting our atheletes, but ALL profits from this type of thing should go to them!

Therein lies the problem, The Hudson Bay Company is the official supplier of of Olympic clothing, and as such they are promoting their brand and getting people in their stores where they'll purchase lots of other things, they should show there support by giving the vast majority of profits to the athletes, but that's just my opinion.

Now the real problem, if things are the same as they have been in the past, the vast majority(if not all) of their clothing is MADE IN CHINA, today's article proves that hasn't changed since the gloves ... yep those pretty red mittens were made in some little sweat shop in China.



I know, a few of you are like "you cannot be serious, that makes no sense", others will be "oh, who cares, but me it's like ....well you can tell that it pisses me off:(

So they had some made locally, you know how much more it cost them PER PAIR .... 15 cents!

Think about that!

Brent

"It's a questions of lust, it's a question of trust .......NOPE, it's a question of morals!!

You know I'm a teenager in the 80's when I throw up random lyrics from an old Depeche mode song to start a post, but it's a great tune none the less:)

So the story goes that in the last 2 weeks I've returned a few Blue Rays to different stores, and what should have been an easy 3 minute return turned out to be a bit of an ordeal ....... WHY, you ask? Well it's a question of morals, and whether you have them or not.

What would you do in the same situation

Purchased 2 movies with a total of $28 dollars in discount through coupons, she didn't notice, so my return, instead of being in the $51 range was nearly $80. Now I'll say it that when she told me the amount I was getting back I was a little startled, so much so that it took me 2-3 seconds to figure out what she did wrong "No" I said "that's not right", "pardon me", "well I only paid $51.__, you forgot to take the coupons off", "oh, thank you very much!"

I'm sure lots of people(including friends of mine UGH!) think it's just fine "it's a big company, they can afford it", or "hey, she should have noticed it", or even worse "hey, it works out well for me(big dumb grin)!" but really, isn't stealing about the least moral thing you can do? and isn't this stealing?

Let me hear an argument that places you in a better position than you started and would still be considered "moral".

Goo

replies should be related to buying something, and NOT something like "I go jogging, and I'm in better shape when I'm done, so you could argue that I'm in a better position AND I'm being moral!" ....... no wild tangents please!