Posted on 06/22/2021 2:09:34 PM PDT by dynachrome
An Amazon warehouse in Scotland reportedly destroys millions of unsold products every year, according to undercover footage and anonymous employees at the facility.
British news outlet ITV obtained footage from inside the e-commerce giant’s Dunfermline facility that showed laptops, books, jewelry and other still-packaged products being sorted into boxes marked “destroy.”
The items, some of which were new and others which were returned, were then sorted into trucks and taken to recycling centers or landfills, according to the outlet.
“From a Friday to a Friday our target was to generally destroy 130,000 items a week,” a former employee at the site told ITV.
“I used to gasp. There’s no rhyme or reason to what gets destroyed: Dyson fans, Hoovers, the occasional MacBook and iPad; the other day, 20,000 Covid (face) masks still in their wrappers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Pretty convincing argument. I’ll buy it. 8>)
I could ship that on my FedEx account for $40
Only fools pay fedex retail
I do the same in my e-commerce business and agree.
Good info! Thanks.
Oh, I believe you. I just grabbed one example at random from a random website.
I found it fascinating that Trump chose this as just one of his battlegrounds with the ChiComs.
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