Comments on: The Mission and the Marina Can Now Be One http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/ Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:23:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: ruby http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9925 ruby Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:35:28 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9925 the essence of a successful company is one that can refresh their marketing based on the needs of their market.
gap, in all reality, is a very socially responsibly company who prides itself in sticking to strict labor standards overseas…as well as offering support to many of the communitites it does business in.

]]> By: jimbeam http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9924 jimbeam Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:21:29 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9924 Wrong.

Successful non-profit pressure, international standards and litigation have been part of the solution for the long time. Companies behave this well because they are forced to and behave badly when they are not.

]]> By: olu http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9923 olu Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:24:56 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9923 I really did think those ads were AA ads also. The GAP has changed its branding so much and so often its been hard to folow. remember the swing dancing?

]]> By: Mission Mistaken http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9922 Mission Mistaken Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:33:22 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9922 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1tbkIUX38

God love youtube.

]]> By: Mission Mistaken http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9921 Mission Mistaken Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:30:33 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9921 Ha! I actually like self edge. Its a very cool little shop, but I hear your irony. I would just say that big picture, the big companies have been part of the solution for a long time. If you want to see nasty, go to a Chinese fireworks factory. Now THAT is nasty.

]]> By: Keep it real http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9920 Keep it real Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:20:35 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9920 I only buy limited-edition Japanese denim purchased for an affordable $300 at Self Edge. They are hand-sewn by Filipina women using surgical thread that is guaranteed to dissolve by the third washing.

I pity those bourgeois Marina denizens have to buy their $40 jeans from some local company.

]]> By: grafiksgirl http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9919 grafiksgirl Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:44:45 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9919 To give you another perspective, as an actual Gap Supplier – Gap really does make a conscious effort to audit factories and have a partnership with them. That being said, the problem lies in the partnerships that those factories make with local suppliers – ultimately trying to save some cash by farming out portions of the production process to Joe Smoe down the street, who might/might not use child labor or other dubious methods for production (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Gap-And-Levi-Promise-Action-After-Manufacturing-Operations-Exposed-As-Causing-Pollution-In-Africa/Article/200908115351904).

Gap can’t manage these entirely – so leaves the factory to manage them. And that’s where the problem lies.

Also – India in general is by the worse as far as quality/factory compliance goes. They just don’t care and are well undercutting the competition as far as pricing…because of their process and production.

]]> By: SFDoggy http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9918 SFDoggy Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:09:37 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9918 I actually prefer Levi’s to the Gap jeans, but that is another successful local company that people love to hate.

]]> By: Mission Mistaken http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9917 Mission Mistaken Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:57:40 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9917 Or how about: “In short, the maligned suppliers of Nike, Gap and Wal-Mart encourage governments to educate women, give women a reason to stay in school and pay them well by local standards. Our study presents a picture of textile and footwear plants that’s far less harrowing than the sweatshop stereotype and more compatible with surveys in dozens of countries that find female workers feel they benefit from the factory jobs.”

http://www.dallasfed.org/research/eclett/2006/el0603.html

]]> By: Kevin Montgomery http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9916 Kevin Montgomery Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:52:37 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9916 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/29/business/main3422618.shtml

]]> By: Mission Mistaken http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9915 Mission Mistaken Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:48:34 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9915 I just find it so boring people who sit around in SF and trash gap. BORING. I bet one quick spin around their rent controlled apartment would find hundred of items made overseas, and likely not in factories nearly as well run as the ones gap uses. Its just the essence of tired cliche, gap bashing.

]]> By: kiya http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9914 kiya Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:35:57 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9914 Actually, depending on how old Kevin is, he might have been born before Gap started making their own jeans.
For the first ten years or so The Gap was a retail store that specialized in carrying Levi’s and OTHER brands.

]]> By: Kevin Montgomery http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9913 Kevin Montgomery Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:55:54 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9913 oh BURN

]]> By: Mission Mistaken http://www.missionmission.org/2009/08/23/the-mission-and-the-marina-can-now-be-one/#comment-9912 Mission Mistaken Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:50:19 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=6266#comment-9912 All my jeans are gap. They have the fit down. And they have been doing jeans since before you were born, smart ass.

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