just about every type of product that you can buy in a shop, is somewhere manufactured, either wholly or in part, by child slaves

Indeed - and, if you add to that figure, the number of adult workers in sweatshops and factories who also get paid a pittance for their work, then it can actually be difficult to buy many products at all!

I once asked a woman who shopped regularly at Primark if she knew that the Primark products were cheap because the workers who made them were exploited. She simply shook her head and replied that she didn't have very much money, and that the stuff sold at Primark was within her budget. I didn't agree with her attitude, but it was difficult to dismiss her reason.