Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63 Polo Shirt

When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. demands a lower price for the shirts and shorts it sells by the millions, the consequences are felt in a remote Chinese industrial town, at a port in Bangladesh and here in Honduras, under the corrugated metal roof of the Cosmos clothing factory.

By Nancy Cleeland, Evelyn Iritani and Tyler Marshall

November 24, 2003