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| Thread ID: 150593 | 2022-04-12 21:20:00 | And is it the same in NZ? | piroska (17583) | PC World Chat |
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| 1485507 | 2022-04-12 21:20:00 | www.news.com.au Wow, food waste is mentioned often...but this?! |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1485508 | 2022-04-13 00:31:00 | not something i've seen here. we have stores which sell these sorts of things. plus we are such a small market we tend to be on the end of the chain. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1485509 | 2022-04-13 01:58:00 | "Unless stores are willing to store unsold items in warehouses indefinitely or can find a market for them overseas, these rejects of Boxing Day sales and “further discounted” items, ultimately end up at the dump. A new report from Deloitte Access Economics estimates the value of these unsold goods to be more than $2.5 billion a year. " note the term ESTIMATES. That means , they dont have any good data on the reality of what happens. Can you ever imagine any retail manager being willing to send millions of $ worth of unsold goods to the dump maybee if they are 5+ years old , and now obselete . Things like washing machines, mattresses , lower the price, sell through a separate cut price store . eg the Appliance Shed in NZ Cheep goods , yes . Ive seen that with unused, still in box , 5+ year old cheap inkjet printers . I had a few pellet loads sent to the dump . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1485510 | 2022-04-13 06:51:00 | Can you ever imagine any retail manager being willing to send millions of $ worth of unsold goods to the dump . Don't know. The likes of Harvey Norman? They're not just a chain, they're international....well at least NZ and Aussie. And their markups aren't small. You think when they have big sales they aren't making money still? Not the same thing I know, but where my son works, they sell to Miter10, Carters and the like, as well and some smaller places. If a customer buys something at say MItre10, and changes their mind, not even a fault, the customer gets a refund from Mitre10, Moiitre10 then asks his work for their refund and sons work then occasionally donates something to Hospice Op shop, or most often, literally smashed it up and dumps the rubble. These are things they imported. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1485511 | 2022-04-13 09:06:00 | Amazon has had a fair bit of criticism about doing this sort of dumping, but the suggestion from the text I read some time ago was that Amazon was acting as an intermediary, as a warehouse/distributor, with the goods still owned by the manufacturers, and it was the manufacturers choice to either pay fees to Amazon to keep holding the goods for sale, or to take their losses and choose for them to be dumped (or shipped to another distro area with better sales). Corporations can be insane about reaching certain 'targets', and if that means writing off stock to eliminate warehousing costs, then they may well choose to do so. Criminal as it might seem. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1485512 | 2022-04-14 09:15:00 | The wastefulness of consumerism is sickening. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1485513 | 2022-04-15 02:04:00 | and if that means writing off stock to eliminate warehousing costs, warehousing is a big cost. which is why many companies here closed nz warehousing of repair parts and started sourcing from aussie. |
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