Clothes Discarded by H&M in Manhattan Are First Rendered Useless To The Poor »
This is common practice for large retailers. When I was a (poor) child one of my early defining memories is of my mother attempting to retrieve a perfectly good discarded Big Wheel knock-off toy from a dumpster behind a large department store for her boys to play with, and being physically threatened, demeaned and chased off by an irate store manager, who then smashed the toy with a hammer in front of us.
Later, when I was a teen, every retail store I worked for had similar policies. Sad to see nothing’s changing.
Similarly, many groceries and supermarkets (and other eateries) will throw out unused food and lock it into a dumpster, leaving it to rot rather than let people “dive” and put it to use. Home Depot will also throw away things and lock their dumpster, I am told. Fuckers.
posted : Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
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Marx writes about the theoretical basis of this practice somewhere in the second book of Capital, but I’ll be damned if...
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worked retail in high school we would send out of season and even lightly stained/torn inventory to
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Yet another problem with corporate chains—you never actually get to talk to anyone in charge. It reminds me of the...
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To take this even deeper, just think about the conditions by which that clothing was manufactured overseas. Things like...
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This summer a friend of mine was approached by an off duty police officer while dumpster diving at a Mark’s Work...
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this is so terrible. companies can donate these unsold items to charity for tax write offs. (hey, i’m not an accountant...
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In highschool, I used to do Food Not Bombs and we would go out to local retailers and food providers to get the day olds...
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unnerving:claytoncubitt:...THIS. IS. BULLSHIT.
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This is absolutely disgusting. If you’re going to throw out products anyway then why not donate them to the people who...
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