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echo: automotive
to: Roy Witt
from: Mark Hofmann
date: 2012-07-28 09:13:56
subject: Re: GMC Suburban

RW> The jello and fruit cups in our Walmart are 'Hecho en Mexico'...

Interesting..  Our Walmart brand fruit cups all are from China.

RW> Especially when local fruit is picked and packed by Mexican immigrants.
RW> 
RW> One would think that shipping Chinese fruit would figure into the price
RW> somewhere...even though their labor is by pre-teen slaves.

Exactly!  

The local farms around here typically hire fleets of Mexicans (probably a
mix of legals and illegals) to pick/package the crops.  

Even though China has children doing the work at slave wages, it is still
apparently less expensive.  

- Mark

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