http://shine.yahoo.com/ch...ash-unsold-goods-562909/
They should be giving those clothes to the poor kids.
They should be giving those clothes to the poor kids.
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H&M and Wal-Mart destroy and trash unsold goods
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Posts: 4036 (01/08/10 06:38 AM) Registered User |
Another reason to hate Walmart.
I worked for a time in a high end women's store and we would donate all worn or out of season returns to a local shelter but first the label would be cut out or in the case of shoes, the inside crossed out with permanent marker. Just for the tax reasons alone it makes more sense to donate and get the tax write-off. |
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Posts: 14908 (01/08/10 07:42 AM) Registered user |
a lot of retailers do this after items have been marked done to nothing and go unsold-or they throw bleach on the clothes before they bag them.
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Posts: 138 (01/08/10 08:02 AM) |
I used to work at this restaurant that would throw away uneaten food
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Posts: 17826 (01/08/10 08:15 AM) Registered user |
JCrew does what springfeverish describes. I buy it at my local thrift store; the charities can make cash off the donations and let the poor people wear stuff
that has no resale value.
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Posts: 1698 (01/08/10 08:41 AM) Registered User |
GODDAMMIT!
Poverty... Landfills... Waste... ARGH!!! ...Also note that the article says that H&M will stop "destroying the garments at the midtown Manhattan location" How many locations do they have where they WON'T be stopping this?
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Posts: 16742 (01/08/10 08:48 AM) Registered user |
It's actually good business. The reason for this is that EMPLOYEES CAN'T BE TRUSTED. Pizza Hut, for example, used to give it's unsold pizzas to the
poor at the end of every day. The end results was that they found employees on all of their branches were making EXTRA pizza so that they would have more
leftovers to give to the poor. So now policy is to throw everything away.
Wal-Mart can't guarantee that employees won't do the same, mark things down as unsold so that they move to the poor house faster. And they also want poor people to BUY their stuff, not wait until it's donated for free. Wal-Mart does try to unload it's items dirt cheap at liquid consolidation websites, I see Wal Mart auctions all the time. |
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Posts: 7171 (01/08/10 08:50 AM) Registered User |
I hate Wal-Mart with a passion, but seems to me that what they do with their unsold merch is their business.
And I wouldn't want to buy something from H&M and then see it on a homeless person a few months later. Then *I* would slash it up and put it in the garbage. Cry me a river, hippies. |
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Posts: 1975 (01/08/10 08:54 AM) |
Sometimes from a liability standpoint its best to toss it.
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Posts: 2971 (01/08/10 08:57 AM) |
This doesn't bother me nearly as much as the crappy wages they pay their employees. Besides, it's not like there are poor kids in rags all over the
place.
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Posts: 1699 (01/08/10 09:00 AM) Registered User |
I can't believe that anything as wasteful as this could ever be a good thing, and calling it "business" doesn't change that.
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Posts: 7651 (01/08/10 09:01 AM) Registered User |
isn't there loads of used clothing donated to the charity shops anyways? i have a great selection of pants that i'm getting ready to donate to the
goodwill (or whatever). i imagine the charity organizations need to end up dumping donated stuff that doesn't get picked too.
i wouldn't have expected any retailers to give any of their unsold stuff away, maybe just some unsellable returns. my SIL goes to a place that sells super discounted Sears returned goods. |
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TequilaVaquero |
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Posts: 5682 (01/08/10 09:08 AM) Registered User |
You could just make a whole lot of vests out of those.
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Licorice |
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Posts: 2972 (01/08/10 09:16 AM) |
goner1 wrote:Good point. If true, that would be a good way for Wal-Mart to deflect criticism. It would also be pretty funny. |
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Posts: 1691 (01/08/10 09:32 AM) |
Licorice wrote: well, actually, there are. think globally. they should donate to an international relief ngo with the agreement that the clothing won't be distributed in the U.S., if their concern is that their customers would end up waiting to get the $3.99 t-shirt for $1.99 at the salvation army store. it poetic, too, to have the clothes return to their third world origins. |
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finger poppin fun |
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Posts: 1316 (01/08/10 09:39 AM) |
Yeah, I'm sure stuff the regular folk donate are much better quality anyway.
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Posts: 5475 (01/08/10 09:39 AM) Registered User |
That's what the NFL does. They never know who is going to win a game, but they want hats and t-shirts and stuff ready immediately after the game. So during
the playoffs & Superbowl they print up stuff for each of the potential winners way before the game, so it's ready to go. The losing team's stuff
gets sent to Third World countries.
So somewhere in Africa, there are little kids wearing t-shirts that say "Arizona Cardinals -- Superbowl Champs" and "NE Patriots: 19-0!" |
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Posts: 16745 (01/08/10 10:00 AM) Registered user |
I can't believe that anything as wasteful as this could ever be a good thing, and calling it "business" doesn't change that. You need to move to move to Sweden or something. That's what the NFL does. They never know who is going to win a game, but they want hats and t-shirts and stuff ready immediately after the game. So during the playoffs & Superbowl they print up stuff for each of the potential winners way before the game, so it's ready to go. The losing team's stuff gets sent to Third World countries. If only those third world kids had Ebay.
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Posts: 5237 (01/08/10 10:04 AM) |
I rinse out my used condoms and donate them to the poor.
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Posts: 9941 (01/08/10 10:09 AM) Registered User |
HugItOut wrote: It would be much better if they were donating the clothes to shelters where people are looking for jobs and need nice things. Taking out the tags and labels - would make up for it. No resale value. |
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Posts: 9657 (01/08/10 10:23 AM) Registered User |
Same thing with Dunkin Donuts. I used to work at one and it was horrible how many donuts I tossed away at the end of the night. We actually were rejected by
shelters when we tried to donate the extra donuts at the end of the night because according to them they couldn't accept them with the frosting and the
various fillings we used in the donuts. They wouldn't even take the plain old fashioned donuts.
But there were always a few regular people that came in later at night that I knew were homeless and we would all give them a dozen donuts and charge them only for one donut. Not like our management cared, they told us we could take home a dozen at night when we left if we wanted to. |
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