The Good News Club is being organized as an on-line
place to counteract the “Wal-Mart Effect.”
The Wal-Mart Effect has many factors, but the most troubling
is the effect that forces businesses to manufacture consumable products with the lowest quality
(and often un-safe) ingredients by people being paid the lowest wages so that
these stressed businesses can make a profit . . . pennies in profits.
·
Less to non-effective products
·
Unhealthy homes full of toxic products made with
less expensive synthetic and cancer-causing chemicals
·
U.S. wage-earners losing their jobs
·
Wage-earners in other un-regulated countries
being paid pennies to produce these sub-standard
products
·
A cheapened, coarser, polluted world
Now for the Good News!
I thought I would have a difficult time finding ways that businesses
were working against the grain and deciding on their own to take a stand
against ” low prices at all cost” in their quest for a piece of the market.
But, happily, I am wrong for two reasons:
1.
Businesses are taking a stand against the
Wal-Mart Effect and producing quality products
2.
They are easy to find once we take the time to
start looking.
BUSINESS HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK:
APPLE
Apple has always stood their ground on prices. Wal-Mart has had no effect in convincing
Apple to tow the line and offer sales to its customers. Of course, when you are Apple you have a lot more
say than a start-up or Mom and Pop, but still kudos to them.
The bigger news to announce this week is that Apple is
making another stand by joining the Fair Labor Association. I applaud their realization that they have
the power to demand that their overseas suppliers pay their employees decent
wages, provide adequate work environments and conditions.
The Good News Club Challenge:
1.
If you have a “shout out” of businesses who are
putting quality first, we want to hear about it and spread the Good News.
2.
As consumers we have power. Refuse to buy the lowest priced product if
you have any suspicions that the product is of sub-standard quality and
cheapens society with its production.
3.
Find another company that sells a better quality
mouse-trap and tell us about it. Welcome
to the Club
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