H&M and Wal-Mart destroy and trash unsold goods
anon
This is so shocking. Completely irresponsible and perverse.
How many other corporations do this too? :(
Link follows;
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/h-m-and-wal-mart-destroy-and-trash-unsold-goods-562909/
Brian Elfert
>This is so shocking. Completely irresponsible and perverse.
>How many other corporations do this too? :(
A big problem with retail chains giving away stuff to the needy and the
like is people trying to return the stuff.
Target was/is removing tags and cutting clothing before giving it to
charities. They want to be certain nobody can return the stuff for
credit. The charities used volunteers to repair the clothing.
If folks didn't steal so much from retail stores they could give away
unsalable products to charity instead of destroying them.
SMS
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> This is so shocking. Completely irresponsible and perverse.
Actually it's neither. Well what's bad is the retailer ordering too much
merchandise in the first place. But you can't just give away overstock
without affecting your sales, and clothing costs the stores so little
that to do anything else with it would cost them more.
What they should do is donate it to shelters or to aid groups that send
it to poor countries. A lot of clothing from Goodwill and Salvation Army
is sent to Mexico. They have to dispose of it in a way that it doesn't
end up being resold.
Gordon
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> How many other corporations do this too? :(
You should see the waste in retail grocery stores.
The instore bakery will trash any unsold food
at the end of the day, and almost half the produce
ends up being thrown out.