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Do consumers care if products are manufactured overseas?
Posted Jan 30, 2012
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KYW News Radio
A recent news report found that many Apple products are manufactured overseas where workers endure low wages and hazardous conditions. Do consumers care? Sunil Wattal, a professor at Temple's Fox School of Business, says American consumers are socially responsible and usually avoid products made where workers are exploited. "The product not only has to be good, but they have to feel good about buying the product," he said.