<story><title>How Zara Grew Into the World’s Largest Fashion Retailer</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/magazine/how-zara-grew-into-the-worlds-largest-fashion-retailer.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eduardordm</author><text>Zara should be closed and owners go to JAIL. It used slave labor (including minors) for YEARS in Brazil.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve been to a &apos;camp&apos; myself in 2011 just before the scandal broke. This is how they did it: a coyote paid by Zara would go to Bolivia and give some money to Bolivians that wanted a &apos;better life&apos; in Brazil. They paid travel expenses and brought them illegally to Brazil. After they were here they would work for no salary - just for the promise that Zara would &apos;give the papers&apos; to work legally. It never happened.&lt;p&gt;To mask the operation they opened a number of ghost companies in Brazil and hired those companies to manufacture their products. When hell broke loose, they stated that those companies were guilty, not them.&lt;p&gt;I hope Zara burns in hell.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Zara Grew Into the World’s Largest Fashion Retailer</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/magazine/how-zara-grew-into-the-worlds-largest-fashion-retailer.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pinaceae</author><text>what isn&apos;t that clear in the article, is the speed advantage over chinese-produced cheap fashion goods. the t-shirt might look the same, a sort-of copy of a Lagerfeld piece. but the Zara one is in stores practically immediately after the fashion show in say Milan is over, while the container ship from China is leaving port.&lt;p&gt;speed kills, and fashion is a speedy business. your customers see what fashion magazines show them, and they want it &lt;i&gt;now&lt;/i&gt;. Zara has understood this. awesome, awesome application of clear thinking and strategy.&lt;p&gt;Zara is being taught over here in EU together with Red Bull as one of the key modern examples for smart business models.</text></comment>