Department stores should be responsible for substandard clothing

In order to reduce costs, most of the current clothing brands use OEM products, precisely because this move has brought many clothing brands into dilemma.

Recently, a comparison test of sportswear jointly issued by the Consumer Council of 21 cities in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hong Kong, and Macau, and the Consumer Protection Committee showed that 60 samples were purchased from the market, Fifty-six samples passed all the project tests; however, the four samples that failed the tests were well-known brands at home and abroad, including Converse, Columbia, Lotto and Northland. Among them, Converse and Lotto belong to the Nike and Li-Ning brands under the famous sports brand. Columbia and Northland also claim professional outdoor sports experts from abroad. The reason for the failure was that the carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes, formaldehyde content, pH value, color fastness, etc. could not reach the national mandatory standards and related product implementation standards. So people can not help asking, why is the brand-name clothing accident, but also the "old four" failed?

It should be said that this comparative test has strong representativeness. In particular, as a sports garment, when the color fastness is poor and it is easy to encounter water, perspiration or saliva, the pigment easily falls off and fades, which not only affects the appearance, but also dye molecules and heavy metal ions in the pigment may be absorbed by the skin and endanger the health. But unfortunately, the interpretation of brand-name clothing is also passing on problems to foundry companies: In order to reduce costs and benefit consumers, OEM production of apparel products has become a common phenomenon in the industry, so it is inevitable to bring product quality supervision exists to control risk .

The author believes that this explanation is only a pretext. For example, the pH value exceeds the standard and the cost is not directly related to the high pH value can use acetic acid to clean, neutralize, reduce, the relevant experts pointed out that the processing cost per meter of cotton fabric is less than a penny. The brand clothing has been found repeatedly, in fact, and the retail market is not directly related to the good relationship. On the one hand, the relevant functional departments of the government will only impose mandatory inspection requirements on foods, household appliances and other products that are mandatory for inspection by the state. For clothing, especially well-known branded apparel, shopping malls will not conduct sampling inspection on each batch of products. Because of the high cost of inspections and the long period of time, under the constraints of the realistic factors of each batch of testing time of 10 to 20 days, it is bound to delay the time to market for new products, especially the peak time for new products to be listed, and ultimately lead to double losses for businesses and manufacturers. At the same time, it does not rule out that some domestic garment manufacturers spend thousands of thousands of dollars to obtain a “birth certificate” in Hong Kong or France, Italy, etc., register a brand, and move into a department store to become an “international brand”. Can sell a good price, these fake foreign brands often weak supervision of OEM companies.

On the other hand, for a long time, although hypermarkets have been criticized for astronomical entrance fees, for strong brands, businesses have lowered their profile, and even widened their entrance to the “zero threshold”. Because most of the department stores nowadays are brand association models in which merchandise is imported, sold, and kept by brand owners. For some brands with high reputation and marketability, only a few brands come and go, which not only results in department stores. Thousands of shops are heavily homogenized, which makes the mall too dependent on these brands. Thus, for brands with higher reputation and reputation, malls exercise a contractual guarantee, and well-known brand companies intentionally or unintentionally drill this loophole.

Therefore, for the brand clothing repeatedly found problems, department stores should shoulder the responsibility, the relevant functional departments should also simplify the testing process, establish a dedicated testing channels and institutions, after all, clothing is ranked in the "clothing, food, shelter, line" The first place, therefore, allows the people to dress comfortably and rest assured without delay.