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Is it Ok for store to destroy & trash unsold merchandise?

Is it Ok for store to destroy & trash unsold merchandise?

  • It's a smart business decision in a free market!

    Votes: 4 12.1%
  • Is it any different from paying farmers not to grow food?

    Votes: 2 6.1%
  • It sounds wastefull and environmentally unsound

    Votes: 5 15.2%
  • It's immoral! These items could be given to the poor or sent abroad!

    Votes: 13 39.4%
  • Other, please explain

    Votes: 7 21.2%
  • I'm not surprised Walmart is involved. They are a tool of Satan...

    Votes: 2 6.1%

  • Total voters
    33
By them destroying the goods, rather than donating them--they can write them off as a total lose.---Just using the system we all support. Nothing wrong there.
 
That system looks pretty expensive. Throwing stuff away is relatively cheap.

What system? Giving it away to charity? :confused:

They probably wouldn't even have to deliver the merchandise themselves. They wouldn't have to do anything differently, except loading it into a cargo van instead of a dumpster. I don't see how this would cost them anything at all.
 
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What system? Giving it away to charity? :confused:

How is it expensive? They probably wouldn't even have to deliver it themselves. They wouldn't have to do anything differently, except loading it into a cargo van instead of a dumpster.

They probably wouldn't have had to load it to be honest, but to reiterate a point I made on page 1, the Wal Mart contractor who did this was most likely under contractual obligation to deliver these goods only to Wal Mart. It is a unique situation and doesn't reflect the policy of either company as their spokesmen stated, only the terms of their contract. The waste was generated when the contractor produced too much. That is their fault and they absorbed the financial costs of that decision. No one would disagree that it's a sad situation when perfectly good clothing goes to waste, but it's also pointless to argue whether it is a good policy, because it isn't anyone's policy.
 
They probably wouldn't have had to load it to be honest, but to reiterate a point I made on page 1, the Wal Mart contractor who did this was most likely under contractual obligation to deliver these goods only to Wal Mart. It is a unique situation and doesn't reflect the policy of either company as their spokesmen stated, only the terms of their contract. The waste was generated when the contractor produced too much. That is their fault and they absorbed the financial costs of that decision. No one would disagree that it's a sad situation when perfectly good clothing goes to waste, but it's also pointless to argue whether it is a good policy, because it isn't anyone's policy.

I agree. I'm glad to see that Wal-Mart's national offices quickly disavowed this policy.

It does say CONTRACTOR though...not supplier. That makes it a little unclear exactly what the contractor's role was. Maybe the contractor was just hired to dispose of the merchandise, and this particular Wal-Mart store didn't know/care what he did with it.
 
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I agree. I'm glad to see that Wal-Mart's national offices quickly disavowed this policy.

It does say CONTRACTOR though...not supplier. That makes it a little unclear exactly what the contractor's role was. Maybe the contractor was just hired to dispose of the merchandise, and this particular Wal-Mart store didn't know/care what he did with it.

I suppose it's possible that they hired them specifically to tear up the clothes and throw them out, but that would be in violation of their stated policy, and it would be poor business sense, so I consider that a very slim possibility. It is probably a local manufacturer of private label clothing or maybe a delivery company, but I don't know why a delivery company would be responsible for throwing the clothes out either.
 
They can remove the tags, end of story. :cool:

Yes, that will stop the "shoplifter" in Walmart pulls tags off the hanging merchandise and walks out the door, and returns with tags miraculously on the discarded items.
 
I suppose it's possible that they hired them specifically to tear up the clothes and throw them out, but that would be in violation of their stated policy, and it would be poor business sense, so I consider that a very slim possibility. It is probably a local manufacturer of private label clothing or maybe a delivery company, but I don't know why a delivery company would be responsible for throwing the clothes out either.

I can't imagine anyone hired to "dispose" of salable property would then destroy that property rather than attempting to realize a profit from it's sale.

In other words, whoever chopped up the gear was paid by someone to do it, and that someone had a reason for spending the money.

If someone had just been paid to haul the stuff away, guaranteed it would have wound up in the flea market at a buck a pop.

The only logical conclusion is that Walmart ordered the physical destruction of this property. No one else would do so. Possibly because the material had WalMart brand labels sewn into the garments and they don't want non-Walmart outlets selling those brands.
 
Yes, that will stop the "shoplifter" in Walmart pulls tags off the hanging merchandise and walks out the door, and returns with tags miraculously on the discarded items.

That is quite an elaborate scam...especially when they don't know which items are going to be discarded, or when. Perhaps you're just paranoid. :roll:
 
That is quite an elaborate scam...especially when they don't know which items are going to be discarded, or when. Perhaps you're just paranoid. :roll:

Why can't they just get the tag after the item has been given out? I mean, why would you get a receipt for something you got for nothing?
 
Yes, that will stop the "shoplifter" in Walmart pulls tags off the hanging merchandise and walks out the door, and returns with tags miraculously on the discarded items.

That is a big problem and I'm sure a lot of stores are worried about it. Not only do they lose the sales on the merchandise that was discarded but they end up either giving out money or other merchandise in exchange for things that were fraudulently returned. There are also vendors who require that any unsellable merchandise be destroyed and disposed of in order to give credit, stores have no choice but to honor the wishes of the vendors or they're out even more money.
 
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