Is this ethical shopping?

From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK) | Date: August 4, 2007 | Copyright information

T's a bright Saturday afternoon in the throbbing heart of Manchester city centre. Today, very probably like every other day, Primark is the place to be. Short of a bullet-dodging tour of duty, there's very little to prepare you for what awaits as automatic doors part and you enter this frighteningly popular cathedral to shopping. A battalion of young women who wouldn't look out of place on the arm of a Premiership footballer - St Tropez tans, perfect hair, weight lifter-sized belts - share th...

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