(Except in jest or when using hyperbole and other literary techniques.)
But it seems that H&M and Walmart not only throw unsold clothes in the trash, but sabotage them to render them unwearable in case anyone tries to salvage them!
I can see where they're coming from on throwing them out instead of donating them. It's horribly wasteful and poor corporate citizenship, but we've all at one time or another just thrown something out rather than go to the effort and logistics of finding an appropriate charity and schlepping the stuff to their collection point.
But to actually put time and resources into destroying them so anyone willing to abase themselves by digging through trash can't make use of them?? To think of the idea of putting time and resources into destroying them??? And to have enough people think it's a good idea that it actually gets done????
I think that is actual genuine evil. No ordinary sinner would think of such a thing.
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I'd bet that product destruction happens in many businesses and industries. I doubt if the New York Times, for instance, gives away its unsold newspapers or later sells them post-dated at a discount.
I don't know about the New York Times specifically, but I often see convenience stores etc. here in Toronto bundling up unsold newspapers from previous days to be picked up (I don't know if it's by someone from the newspaper or if it's by ordinary municipal recycling) and the papers are in normal condition - it's not like they're punching holes in them or anything. There's nothing stopping a garbage-picker from yoinking them.
(Not that this is an apt analogy, since newspapers are functionally "expired" after the publication date and cannot really be used for their normal intended use. You could still use them to make paper maché or whatever, but not to learn the day's current events.)
I can say with authority that the New York Times dumps its unsold papers into a huge recycling bin and anyone can dive in and get them. Old newspapers are not considered commodities.
Many restaurants have city food banks pick up their leftovers on a daily basis.
Supermarkets expect people to dumpster-dive for their unsold produce. Sad, but true. Most do nothing to stop it and sometimes even facilitate it.
I do not believe that kind of product destruction is commonplace. I'd need some bona fide examples before I conceded that.
And I agree: evil.
Just to add another data point, when I was working in fast food, we threw out a certain amount of food as a matter of course (e.g. we'd have certain amounts of fries and patties on hand to meet anticipated demand, and we'd throw them out if they'd been in the warmer for beyond a certain mandated period of time). I never saw anyone dumpster dive, but if they had it would never have occurred to anyone (not even any boss or head office person I encountered) that we need to stop them from taking our garbage for free. Our reaction would probably be concern about possible food poisoning, and/or trying to figure out how to get the discarded food to them in a more dignified way. Management might have wanted to discourage it in case they get food poisoning and sue or something, but it would never have come to pouring something inedible over the discarded food to stop people from getting it for free.
I used to work at a Pier 1 Imports in high school, and it was their policy to destroy-to-the-point-of-uselessness any items that were going to be discarded for not selling or because of minor damage. My boss at the time told me it's because they don't want employees purposefully doing minor damage or hiding merch, waiting until it gets tossed, then 'stealing' it from behind the store.
It seemed ridiculous then and it seems ridiculous now. Considering how little H&M probably pays for its merch (there's an article in Harper's magazine this month that lists the price-per-item quote from the Cambodian factory that makes their clothing as less than $2 per tshirt), they might take the same approach.
M: Do you happen to know what their reason is for destroying and throwing out rather than selling at clearance prices? Like even if they just want to get rid of it, why not sell it for a dollar rather than putting worker-hours into disposing of it?
Some damaged stuff they would mark down and sell - if they thought someone would buy it. I think this policy was for stuff that they thought was too damaged to sell. Why they think an employee would want it in that state is a total mystery. I can't imagine many people damaging merchandise to the point where it can't be sold but then still wanting it for themselves - or in any case I can't imagine this happening often enough that having the destroy-everything-completely would make sense.
Throwing away clothes that don't sell seems more sinister, though, because clothes are essential and lots of people need them. Most of what I saw get thrown away was cracked vases and such, which is maybe harder to donate usefully. I guess I saw a couple of blankets with minor damage or imperfections go, and that seems wasteful in a way that's more similar to the clothes.
Yeah, clothes does seem worse because home furnishing accessories aren't high on the list of the necessities of life.
Given the trouble it would take to damage something so that it would have to be thrown away but you could still use it yourself, combined with the very finite number of home furnishings a person needs, I'm surprised anyone considered it worthwhile to pay people to break them when throwing them out. And if they really wanted to steal stuff, wouldn't they just casually neglect to break one item in the batch?
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