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Old 02-01-06 | 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by alanbikehouston
I would support a law that if Wal-Mart sells unsafe products to children, and a child is injured, the Wal-Mart executives go to prison.
A law which would, of course, result in no products for children. No rational person would accept such a risk. I suspect that few, if any, corporate executive has the necessary skills to personally evaluate any toy for safety and would have to rely on the expertise of others to stay out of prison. If walmart, as you contend, cares nothing about money (actually money is everything to walmart) then they would have no hesitation to forego the sales of products that could send their executives to jail.

I can confidently state that I have assembled more walmart bicycles than 99% of bikeforumm members. There is actually very little to assemble out of the box and with a bit of practice, it takes no more that 10 minutes to assemble any bike they sell. If adjusted correctly, the bikes are safe to ride. The problem is that the people hired to assemble the bikes do not do the job correctly. BTW, I didn't work for walmart, I just assembled large numbers of bikes for purchased for donation to Toys For Tots. I've assembled well over 100 bikes of all sizes and of the cheapest models and I test rode every bike.
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