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 …
