For some of us, picking goods based on sustainability, fair trade or how the company treats a worker in a factory two continents away is secondary to picking goods that won’t put a checking account into overdraft, and balance the budget with food and medicine.
I just read a story about a mother who said her 2-year-old son was bullied by a grown man. They were in a Wal-Mart store shopping and the little boy was wearing a pink headband. The man took the headband off the boy and cuffed him and said, “You’ll thank me later.”