They let them decide whom to put on the job, whether to subcontractit to someone else, which parts to automate and whether to recycle solutions that have worked elsewhere.
Similarly, a clothing firm near Bordeaux with sales of as little as FFr40m says that it will simply subcontract 75% of its manufacturing to Tunisia and Morocco if wage costs grow any more.
The retailer warned it would immediately sever ties with the companies that subcontract work to factories without Wal-Mart's knowledge starting on March 1, and at some point would publish the names of terminated factories on its website.