Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by RenThraysk 722 days ago
It has nothing to do with profit, as it'll just increase the price of the goods to the consumer.
1 comments

and lose profit. If they spend the money to run a safe production line and pass the cost on the the consumer they will loose market share to the company that runs an unsafe production line & keeps the price the same. It's also especially expensive if the do it quickly. It's been a few years, so fortunately some of them have actually gotten around to updating their production lines by now. T hey just did it slowly in the cheapest, least disruptive way possible.