Posted on 05/12/2019 8:12:09 AM PDT by rktman
Amazon destroys millions of brand-new items including televisions, books and nappies it cannot sell, an investigation has revealed.
Lorry-loads of goods, many still in their packaging, are dumped in sprawling landfill sites or incinerated. The shocking waste was revealed by undercover investigators who secretly filmed in one of the multi-billion-pound company’s enormous warehouses.
Reporters posing as Amazon workers discovered an area called the ‘destruction zone’ where they covertly filmed staff loading pristine toys, unused kitchen equipment and flat-screen TVs into skips to be transported to dumps.
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You also hear stories about milk tankers dumping milk into ravines,
I’ll say. One thing kohl’s is doing is returning amazons items if people want to. Just drop them off there. I can’t imagine more the 5-10 percent are returned.
“To the dump, to the dump, to the dump dump dump!”
Actually, practically everything you buy other than food ends up in the dump.
... and used food has a dump of its own...
I believe it. I spent some time at Home Depot and was appalled by the vast amounts of unsold items that were thrown in the dumpster. Cases of unsold light bulbs, power tools, even refrigerators. When I inquired why I was told this is the agreement with the mfg. They don’t want them back and they don’t want them given away. I was told that Walmart does the same thing so I expect it is the norm for many large retailers. It doesn’t take an undercover reporter to find this out. LOL.
Damn, America ain’t the place it used to be if a good bit of this stuff isn’t finding it’s wa to market...
Skips are dumpsters.
Can’t even donate new toys to charity.
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Toys for Tots?
You can’t generalize of course, but I order a lot of stuff online and my return rate is nowhere near 30 percent.
I’ve also had retailers who didn’t want returns- they have allowed me to keep the item and encouraged me to donate it while still giving me a credit. Usually that has happened with low-priced items, not defective but not the right color, not fitting as expected, and so forth.
Go to a Wal-Mart returns center - same thing - containers of merchandise that can be resold is sent to the crusher.
What it tells me is they are knowingly over-ordering to get massive volume discounts so they can undercut other retailers on sales prices.
It stinks of monopoly activity, but is likely in a gray area of legal vs illegal.
I’m an Amazon FBA resellor, so here is what I have to add. Once we send stuff into the warehouse, we have a limited time to sell it before the storage fees eat up all of the profit. Fees are cheaper Jan-Sept and are triple Oct-Dec. Plus there are extra storage fees after 1 year, it used to be 6 months. So at some point if the product doesn’t sell and you will need to cut your losses. Amazon has a disposal fee, for 15 cents an item, they will trash it for you. Otherwise, you will need to spend 50 cents for it to be sent back to you. Depending on your product, 15 cents is a lot better than 50 cents.
Just in time delivery becomes, Just in time destruction.
There's Britton, there's the the USA, there's the bloody sea (Atlantic).
30% get returned ...
My son is on like his 5th robotic vacuum. Each one ends up getting into an open baby diaper, well need I say more.
(I’m sure they have)
I hear the island that got the Saints Superbowl 2019 shirts is very happy, though, and prefers them to the actual winner shirts.... (ducking)
My daughter and her husband buy pallets at a local online auction. Depending on what’s on them they make between $300-500 per pallet. They have a friend that lives in Los Angeles that does the same thing. She buys a lot of pallets from Lancaster.
yup... no idea why they are destroying stuff in the UK
Bezos is in business for only one reason: to make money. For every one he sells at a lower price there is likely one of a new and better model that he won't sell. He has likely determined that he can make more profit if he destroys some items than he would make if he sold them at a reduced price.
Yep. You know he has an army of Operations Research PhDs optimizing that.
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