Re: Why Does UK Import Rubbish?
[QUOTE=Azure;1767282]Why do most of the Fashion Retailers including M & S have their fashions made in the Far East? Apart for the obvious, making much more profit?
There are plenty of Garment Manufacturers in the U K that can make knickers that do not fall down round your ankles when shopping because the elastic has snapped and T-Shirts that do not lose their shape in the wash.
Up North, were there is massive unemployment for unskilled workers, they would be only too happy to make ladies underwear. and T-shirts as well.
The Government ought to give huge incentives to Businesses New and Old or..even pay them to relocate to areas of mass unemployment.
Many British made goods are sort after by other Countries, even Bury Black Pudding.
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That is a really sore point with my family and many other families in Shropshire, Azure.
We had two large Clothing factories, one in Oswestry and one in Telford, employing hundreds of local, mainly women. These two factories had been operating successfully for many years. At the Oswestry factory, they made womens tops and trousers, as well as jeans etc. Marks and Spencer was the largest customer for both factories since they opened years before.
My sis-in-law was a buyer for the Telford Clothing factory, where they made all the baby and toddler clothes. The quality was second to none and my sis-in-law visited M&S head office in Baker Street, London, twice a month with beautiful new lines, which were in almost 100% cases, accepted with pleasure, they were so perfect and well made. A quality British clothing product.
Then, some pillock at a M&S board meeting must have decided that it would be cheaper to buy everything from places such as India etc, as well as using the workforces over there to make all their clothing as well due to the cost.
Hence, our two local clothing factories closed and put several hundred out of their jobs because the factories were no longer productive enough due to losing our main customer.
Since then, it is a well known fact that clothing of all description has gone downhill in quality and quantity in M&S. The baby and toddler clothes are not a patch on those made in the British factories, and women's clothing quality has really gone downhill with cheap tacky patterns and even cheaper material.
But hey ho, That's the price they pay for turning their back on quality British manufacture and choosing poor quality hoping to turn a quick buck by using overseas factories.
No sympathy from Shropshire at all.