In Bentonville, Christmas apparently starts in October.
Yesterday, without a shred of irony, Wal-Mart announced the official commencement of the "Christmas season." Yes, on Halloween... the holiday with the least possible amount of Christmas spirit. I'm not sure Santa would approve of that.
Of course, Wal-Mart is desperate to get holiday shoppers into their stores a little early this year. But savvy consumers will want to think twice before shopping at a company that imports 70% of its merchandise from China. Check out this bit of news from our friends at the Consumerist:
Consumerist's ongoing lead recall tally has reached 14,431,550 products recalled just for lead in the first 10 months of 2007.
That's right, almost 14.5 million products have been recalled this year for lead alone, and you can expect more to come. When you think of lead poisoning and dangerous products, you may well think of Wal-Mart. Many of the recalled items are cheap, Chinese-made toys from Wal-Mart's shelves, like the recently recalled "sets of realistic-looking farm animals, jungle animals and dinosaurs."
So, there's a bit of food for thought for holiday shoppers. Unsafe products are never a good deal.
Posted by Matthew - November 1, 2007 11:57 AM - Hard to Believe