online shopping
Christine made a mistake, and she admits it. She needed to return some clothes purchased online from two different retailers. Somehow, she mixed up the packages, and the clothes destined for
Motherhood Maternity ended up at
the Gap, and vice versa. The Gap immediately realized the mistake and sent the package back so Christine could redirect it to the correct store. Motherhood Maternity...didn't.
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return policies
Reader Joe sent us a tip that Gap,
Old Navy,
Banana Republic, and Atheleta have changed their online return policy. "They now deduct 6$ from the return refund, no questions asked... " he wrote. Well, that's not exactly it. Here's the official word from Gap Inc.
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the gap
Gap's CEO Glenn Murphy said Tuesday says he plans to close some stores and shrink others in an effort to turn things around at the slumping retailer.
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sweatshops
With the Gap embarrassed this week by reports that Indian children as young as 10 were
making Gap Kids clothing, a lot of people are asking, just how frequently and to what degree do large U.S. companies like Gap and Wal-Mart monitor their foreign manufacturers? According to Slate,
"anywhere from six months to once every several years." Unfortunately, because the visits are usually announced ahead of time, factories can hide violations, coach employees on what to say, get rid of the child workers, and forge records. In China, there are consultants who will prepare a factory for inspection, going so far as to fake missing records.
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Consumerist
