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Old February 27th, 2004, 12:35 AM
Skwala
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Default OT Food for thought


"Jonathan Cook" wrote in message
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ojunk (George Adams) wrote in message

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a lot of sensible stuff snipped

It _will_ fail eventually, the only
question is when. And I for one am starting to think sooner rather
than later...

Jon.


I couldn't agree more.. When Teva sandles moved to Indonesia, Teva's
averaged around 60 bucks a pair, and production costs at their Portland
facility were something like $13,000 per hour**, a few years after the move,
production costs had dropped to a couple of thousand an hour, and a pair of
sandle put you back $79.95.



** its been a while since i actually looked at these numbers, so if I got it
wrong somewhere, mea culpa.