Distribution is how we deliver a product to it's point of sale. This includes how the various ingredients travel to make that product and ? is the true cost realised.The Story of Stuff led me to think about the 'true cost' and how ethical is the price we pay,how we source the materials, how we treat the labour force that produces it, how we may be affecting the global and local enviroments. We go to The Wharehouse to buy say a hot water bottle and pay $3.99, did it really cost that much- product ingredients,packaging, wages,transport.I personally don't like to think that because I want to buy as cheap as I can that I am propensiating very low wages or dangerous working conditions.But it does make you start to think.Where are the ethics ? the company who has poor working practices or we who continue to expect the cheap price. Ethics
morally or in a business sense or societal are they different?
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True, we think of our own gain (low price) but I often do not consider whether it is ethical to buy a low cost product, especially those imported from 'poor' countries. It becomes easy to think that not buying the product won't make any difference to the situation. But is it ethical to just ignore the fact that those people producing the product are being exploited?
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