I'm pretty sure almost everything made at Wal-mart that doesn't say "made in the USA" on the label was made in a sweat shop. Interestingly, the research on this isn't from christians or left-liberal environmentalists, but from business poeple. [I'll bring some of that information with me the next time I'm in front of a computer so you can know] The unfortunate truth is that there are not many alternatives - I could shop at kroger but be buying the same product made by the same company - so it wouldn't really matter.
I think my point more was that, we should at least ask and take some effort to see whether we should spend $2 extra dollars on a frappachino at starbucks knowing that a laborer somewhere will get a fair wage because of our rightly spent abundance, or whether we should buy folgers or walmart brand coffee for $2 cheaper, causing laborer's somewhere not to be paid a fair wage and depositing into our pockets the $2 we saved so that we can spend it on ourselves elsewhere at our leisure. Our larger expendible income often comes at the price of someone else's complete lack of income.
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