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Posted on June 21, 2008

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATIONThis Reuters article highlights how difficult it is being a shopper of analog goods in terms of trying to discern quality from where things are made: These days, many fashionistas are still confused over what is real, what is fake, and whether a product's country of origin says anything about its quality.Even a made in Italy label no longer guarantees that a bag or a pair of shoes was hand crafted by artisans in a Tuscan workshop. Instead, the bag could have been stitched together by illegal workers in clandestine Italian factories, and the shoes assembled from pl...

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