This week the New York Times reported a disheartening story about two of the largest retail chains. You see, instead of taking unsold items to sample sales or donating them to people in need, H&M and Wal-Mart have been throwing them out in giant trash bags. And in the case that someone may stumble on these bags and try to keep or re-sell the items, these companies have gone ahead and slashed up garments, cut off the sleeves of coats, and sliced holes in shoes so they are unwearable.
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.
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And these crook dare to lecture us about Earth preservation and sustainable practices. Perverted world we live in. Britain is covered with snow but the idiots are pushing for the global warming tax. Hey, where is you carbon now? Evapourated? Dorks!
ReplyDeleteI can here them in Bentonville... WTF, someone really wants that crap? I guess they really do know the value of the Chicom crap they sell.
ReplyDeleteYou would think that Wal-Mart and others could give this stuff to charities and keep it quiet.
ReplyDeleteI avoid buying at Wal-Mart if possible.
There was a lady saying we should have a 1 day a month boycott of certain companies. Especially those outsourcing our jobs and hiring illegal aliens.
Maybe we could just boycott the Fedeal Reserve.
In reality....we do not need them.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to "real" Retailers. Many Americans haven't worked for, nor know the depths of the Retailer. Sears, Walmart, Target, Kohl, JC Penney, and on and on. These are some of the most blood thirsty minds on the face of the Earth. I started in the retail world before I became sickened and bailed out. Employees of retail are servants to "The home office", actually worse than serfs on a tenant farm. Act up and your chopped in a zippy minute. The day after the day after Christmas your most likely gone or waiting to be notified you wont be needed any longer. Actually its much worse than I can find words to describe, and I was for a few years a part of it. Much worse than this article talks of, much worse. You would get a call from the headshed: "You will cut it to the bone, and shave the bone, or we will get someone who will". I finally said "OK get em asshole" and it was the best thing I ever did.
ReplyDeleteYes, a friend of mine works at one of the chain pharmaceutical/chemical/corn syrup stores (CVS) and all he does is work, not allowed to rest, as its all on TV. Horrible benefits and work hours, regulations galore....He is a sheeple and seems to love his servitude..
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, slavemart is trashing their unsold goods, sounds like the Christian way to do things, kind of like war..
It is time for all of you to pause and think who, how and why exterminated millions of Russians after the revolution. And the answer will be-the same gang of people, calling themselves "chosen". They run all of your corporations. They run all your governments-local and federal. They run your military. Since they work for their goal and not your country-here is the result. Slavery of the Bible. A question for those who can still think. How did easternt countries like Japan and South Kores managed to get by without the Bible for 5-6 thousand years?
ReplyDeleteJapan and S Korea are excellent examples of slave workers. An example of what is happening or has happened to workers in the US.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I missing 11:29's point, first I am a Christian, however, the Bible advocates slavery. So them being with or with out a Bible means nothing to me regarding economics and workers rights.
Please don't forget NAZI Germany was very much Christian and the Vatican (just look it up) advocated the miss treatment of Jews, as did almost all Christian's at the time. Not a word mentioned about the Holocaust for many years by anyone.
So what's your point 11:29?
We are past the doing the right thing phase now. Start thinking about #1 only.
ReplyDeleteIf something you need is 5 cents cheaper at Walwart buy it there. The time for 'fixing things' is over. Yes, they are greedy corporation slime but so is our government.
Do what it takes to keep yourselp going on a personal level. Put aside nonsense like religion, voting, left vs right; it is all crap.
evilbible.com does not know what he is talking about. Hitler was NOT a devout Catholic.
ReplyDeletePeople should talk what they know not what they think.I would address the other bull but then I would be addressing more of evilbible's angry drivel and time is too important.
I've always bought at thrift stores. Once you get used to it, you'll probably never go back to the malls or Walmart.
ReplyDeleteI've refinished by hand antiques that were left out on garbage night.
I've gotten stuff for free on freecycling websites and the free section of Craigslist.
I can't believe these stores would begrudge some needy person the stuff they were throwing away!