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Dollar Store in Dallas sells American flag with 61 stars
by Damanick Dantes
Jun 29th 2010 at 5:00PM
Filed under: In the News

Tim Childress thought he was being patriotic when he went to buy an American flag at his local Dollar Tree store in Dallas. But he soon discovered that his purchase was a cheap impostor of Old Glory that was emblazoned with a not-so authentic 61 stars.

Childress noticed the strange crooked pattern containing eleven extra stars when he returned home from the store, local television station WFAA-TV reported. The extra stars defy the standard set by President Eisenhower that requires the American flag to contain 13 stripes and 50 stars on a field of blue in the upper left corner. The plastic flag was made in China and marketed by a Virginia company, the television station reported.

Tim returned to the Dollar Tree store and explained that there should only be 50 stars to represent each state. "They need to correct this or at least get the Chinesse supplier to correct this," Childress said to WFAA-TV. The Dallas Dollar Tree assistant store manager did not want to comment in front of the camera when the local television station arrived at the location. Off-camera, the manager for the Dollar Tree store said that the flag is just a 'patriotic banner,' not an American flag.

After the report was aired Sunday night, Dollar Tree told WFAA-TV that all of the 61 star flags had been destroyed. WalletPop reached out to Dollar Tree, but did not receive a response by press time.

High Street shopping chain Poundland is launching an inquiry after a boy of seven was found to be working 100 hours a week in an Indian sweatshop producing goods for the store.

The child, known as Ravi, was reportedly earning just 7p a hour to make napkin rings for the cut-price chain.

Poundland, as its name suggests, sells all its items for £1 each.
The boy was found to be working and sleeping in the sweatshop in Delhi.

His ‘wages’ of under £7 a week are sent to his widowed mother in a poverty-stricken rural village hundreds of miles away in the east­ern state of Bihar.

The cheap trinkets he decorates are bought by Trishulin Overseas, a Delhi company which has orders to supply Poundland.

The chain was founded by Britons Dave Dodd and Stephen Smith in 1990, but sold in May this year to U.S. private equity firm Warburg Pincus for £200million.

Poundland has more than 250 outlets across Britain, and employs about 7,000 people.

The company confirmed last night that it had placed orders with Trishulin, but said it was a new sup­plier and they had not yet received any of the goods.

‘Poundland does not tolerate child labour under any circum­stances and will not work with companies that employ children,’ a spokesman said.

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Lord Jim wrote:I think we should inform the Chinese that three of those additional stars stand for Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Tibet....

Lord Jim wrote:I suspect our cut price crap at cheapest cost comes from Chinese PLA slave labor camps rather than Indian sweat shops....

We use India for cut price crap IT support....