[Poohbah]

The WalMart parking lot in Lake Elsinore is still crowded.

For now.

SARS is still

Guess cotton and plastic don't transmit the disease.

Buyers won't go to China. Most companies have imposed a quarantine; Nike is already looking for somewhere else to make their shoes.

China will get on top of it with draconian quarantine measures.

Except that (a) they're too damn slow to do it (the time for a quarantine was six weeks ago) and (b) quarantine doesn't help much with stuff that's airborne, unless ChiComs can stop breathing for three weeks.

[breakem]

I think the SARS thing will get a little bigger there and then subside. They are building facilities and will keep folks inside. Will be interesting to see if they can get out front of the thing. The effect on travel and such will be temporary, the question is how long.

Do you think WalMart is bailing on China. I don't think so. Nike has been in Bangledesh for years and is always looking for a little cheaper way to go. I've been buying New Balance for years. Made in the USA. The last pair came UPS, made in China. And so it goes.