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The End of the Walmart Era

Posted by Alex T in August 4th, 2008

Posted in: Colorado, Community, Current Issues, Local Tags: fuel prices, Globalization, Jon Taplin, The New York Times, Wal-Mart

Is a T-shirt from China still a T-shirt from China if it costs almost triple to ship it here? From the NY Times,The cost of shipping a 40-foot container from Shanghai to the United States has risen to $8,000, compared with $3,000 early in the decade, according to a recent study of transportation costs. Big […]