By Jason Busch on November 4, 2009
Every month, it seems there’s another large-scale China consumer products recall. Earlier in the fall, it was Wal-Mart. Now it’s my favorite big-box non-warehouse format, Target. The LA Times blog recently reported that “Target has recalled 610,000 Halloween flashlights sold exclusively at its stores after learning that the lights could heat up, melt and burn hands”.
While this is a fate that I’m sure we’d like to wish on the witches and goblins that haunted our Halloween nightmares as children, it should also be a nightmare for any procurement organization sourcing similar electronic items from China. After all, given that …
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Posted in Business | Tagged China, Retail, Target, Wal-Mart
Obsessed with how companies manage, spend and save money, Jason writes about procurement, trade and supply chain issues @
Spend Matters. He has significant first hand experience developing and marketing technology and services products, has advised numerous companies on sourcing and related techniques as well as M&A pursuits. In previous lives before tech, he was a management consultant and merchant banking analyst.
