Posted on 01/08/2010 7:02:35 AM PST by Scythian
This unsettling discovery was made by graduate student Cynthia Magnus outside the back entrance of H&M on 35th street in New York City. Just a few doors down, she also found hundreds of Wal-Mart tagged items with holes made in them that were dumped by a contractor. On December 7, she spotted 20 bags of clothing outside of H&M including, "gloves with the fingers cut off, warm socks, cute patent leather Mary Jane school shoes, maybe for fourth graders, with the instep cut up with a scissor, men’s jackets, slashed across the body and the arms. The puffy fiber fill was coming out in big white cotton balls.”
The New York Times points out that one-third of the city's population is poor, which makes this behavior not only wasteful and sad, but downright irresponsible. Wal-Mart spokeswoman, Melissa Hill, acted surprised that these items were found, claiming they typically donate all unworn merchandise to charity. When reporters went around the corner from H&M to a collections drop-off for charity organization New York Cares, spokesperson Colleen Farrell said, “We’d be glad to take unworn coats, and companies often send them to us."
(Excerpt) Read more at shine.yahoo.com ...
When I used to work at Target they would have big cardboard boxes on pallets that would be filled with discontinued merchandise and sold to Goodwill by the pound.
I am sure most retailers would be willing to sell their discontinued stuff at a discount if there is a reliable market for it. But I can see them not wanting to spend the manpower and expense doing a sidewalk sale if the profit isn’t there.
congratulation.
Yet Wal-mart felt the need to DESTROY perfectly good merchandise.
As I said they could have slashed prices, rather than trash the merchandise.
Pure insanity.
I assume it was a joke ?
No I haven’t.
I used to bag up all of our old kid’s clothes for the Goodwill. Was always hard to toss a pair of jeans with a couple of holes or ragged tennis shoes in the garbage. (My son LOVED those jeans with the holes in them!).
For the last year though the bags are going into the attic. Future barter items if necessary. Although every time I toss another bag up there I think of that Proverbs (or something) about storing up treasures on earth that will just get moldy!
Although I still have a couple of boxes of books, toys and stuffed animals waiting for a trip to Goodwill.
But both outfits cooperate with Red Cross and other charities and give away plenty of their clothing and household goods for free.
Walmart probably needs to find a new contractor, but this was not Walmart dumping.
Lawyers....
“”I saw that episode of Frasier.””
I’ve never watched Frasier, so I miss the reference. Botox? On a “show about nothing”?
“”I saw that episode of Frasier.””
I MISSPOKE: I’ve never watched Frasier, so I miss the reference. Botox? On a “show about nothing”?
WHOOPS, wrong thread — did you mean the bad latin? I heard that in high-school in the 1960s. My latin teacher thought it was a HOWL. Miss Donley.
That's great.
Resourcefullness is fine, but let's talk about the "free to needy" donations that I WAS POINTING OUT, and how it's taken advantage of by the same folks who live off your taxdollars, and support their "entertainment" with the profits.
In "da hood", you take your food stamps to the corner store, take a fraction of their value in cash, and use it for the street. Or, you take your food stamps and buy alchohol from the friendly corner store, where you get $.50 on the dollar, but he'll let you buy cigarettes and beer/wine with the food stamps.
THOSE are the ones I was talking about, who take donations and turn them into cash.
I thought that was just an Oregon thingy .... the Goodwill area manager here makes just a tad under 1 million smacks a years.
It’s their stuff. They should do whatever they want with it.
No, the goodwill is a business. If there is one in your area, go check it out one of these days. I couldnt believe the prices they were charging. Some of the clothing was new..but other stuff was used garbage.
I had gone there looking for things to sell on ebay. I knew a woman who made a lot of cash doing that..only, I think the stuff that had any value was picked thru before it saw the store shelves. They had crap.
I am not sure what the salvation army does. I get the feeling they also sell their stuff.
I'm not very familiar with retail practices, but I believe that retailers have to comply with the contracts they make with their various sources. Not selling below a minimum price is one of the terms the seller must agree to.
I actually asked about this a couple of years ago...directly to Wal-Mart and I was told it was government regulations and liability issues that force Wal-Mart to do this.
The bottom line is we need to truly tranform our country into a free land and we need to get rid of all these stupid laws and lawyers that create insane situations like this.
The Wal-Marts that have the deli’s, etc have to throw all that food away, they can’t even give perfectly good food to local shelters because of liability issues.
It is when we look to the government to solve our problems this is how things end up.
Welcome to the Progressive’s Perpetual Opposite Day!!!
The Dora top in the picture at the article on Shine-there were a bunch of Dora Pajama sets recalled recently. Is it remotely possible that some of the items thrown away had been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission?
I believe this is the law. They must destroy the merchandise they can’t sell, they are not allowed to give it away or sell it at ridiculous prices. I saw the same thing happen with farm goods such as milk and oranges, dumped into a ditch because they were not allowed to either sell it or give it away. Magazines are also destroyed if you can’t sell them, you must rip the cover off of them.
If you're so worried about what Wal Mart does with their unsold merchandise, perhaps you should buy it yourself and donate it to charity.
Until then, STFUASD. And the same to the rest of your like minded comrades!
Is it time for your meds?
Or are you drunk?
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