The following is completely hypothetical, I've not heard anything anecdotal so please if it causes you concerns in the future for your shopping experience remember that most stores have Customer Services just for these sort of questions.
It occurred to me earlier today that the near infinite supply of Clearance merchandise in stores isn't just caused by last seasons goods taking up valuable sales space but perhaps there are in fact more sinister reasons which have been kept purposely out of the public's eye.
Imagine if you will a large container of jeans is produced in some country other than the one you are intent on buying in, now while the people who made the clothing might not be themselves in the best of health, there are limitations to the amount of contamination that they can do just through handling the goods.
This however is not the case should the container pick up hitch hikers, Illegal Immigration is when people go to great extremes to escape one fate and swap it for another which can technically be worse. Being sealed in a container for potentially months does tend to put a cramp on a persons day, in fact in most cases the Vacuum tight containers can be sealed for months waiting for various papers to be filled out and filed because they eventually clear a countries import docks.
In this time these immigrants can of course suffer a demise (They can die in the container). Depending on how sealed the container is (well it would of been air tight initial before an immigrant broke into it) there is a likelihood that months of a decaying carcass can infect the merchandise.
So why do I mention this, well this is where it boils down to Ethics, Morality and Justice. Technically each container probably contains hundreds of thousands of a currency denomination. This means the death of one illegal immigrant isn't enough to burn the whole containers manifest, I can just imagine some middle management guy saying "Right all the clothing that's been in contact with any of the corpses bodily fluids, the rest I want put on the shelves."
The problem is that there are a number of diseases that can actually be contracted from clothing through a dead body being in such a confined location. (I would source some information however if anything it tends to cause people to get overly paranoid, so I'll just mention something historic in regards to this. The number of deaths caused by settlers to the Native Americans due to Smallpox being contract through the trade of blankets taken from Smallpox victims.) My concern is that if such things occur the stores do not inform the customers as to why the "Clearance shelf" has such cheap merchandise and probably advertise the reason for the clearance as being something else.
So ladies when you are next looking at the rack for something to buy.... I wouldn't suggest thinking of this thread.
(What are you thoughts on the Ethics/Morality of Middle Management selling warez that really should be destroyed?)
It occurred to me earlier today that the near infinite supply of Clearance merchandise in stores isn't just caused by last seasons goods taking up valuable sales space but perhaps there are in fact more sinister reasons which have been kept purposely out of the public's eye.
Imagine if you will a large container of jeans is produced in some country other than the one you are intent on buying in, now while the people who made the clothing might not be themselves in the best of health, there are limitations to the amount of contamination that they can do just through handling the goods.
This however is not the case should the container pick up hitch hikers, Illegal Immigration is when people go to great extremes to escape one fate and swap it for another which can technically be worse. Being sealed in a container for potentially months does tend to put a cramp on a persons day, in fact in most cases the Vacuum tight containers can be sealed for months waiting for various papers to be filled out and filed because they eventually clear a countries import docks.
In this time these immigrants can of course suffer a demise (They can die in the container). Depending on how sealed the container is (well it would of been air tight initial before an immigrant broke into it) there is a likelihood that months of a decaying carcass can infect the merchandise.
So why do I mention this, well this is where it boils down to Ethics, Morality and Justice. Technically each container probably contains hundreds of thousands of a currency denomination. This means the death of one illegal immigrant isn't enough to burn the whole containers manifest, I can just imagine some middle management guy saying "Right all the clothing that's been in contact with any of the corpses bodily fluids, the rest I want put on the shelves."
The problem is that there are a number of diseases that can actually be contracted from clothing through a dead body being in such a confined location. (I would source some information however if anything it tends to cause people to get overly paranoid, so I'll just mention something historic in regards to this. The number of deaths caused by settlers to the Native Americans due to Smallpox being contract through the trade of blankets taken from Smallpox victims.) My concern is that if such things occur the stores do not inform the customers as to why the "Clearance shelf" has such cheap merchandise and probably advertise the reason for the clearance as being something else.
So ladies when you are next looking at the rack for something to buy.... I wouldn't suggest thinking of this thread.
(What are you thoughts on the Ethics/Morality of Middle Management selling warez that really should be destroyed?)