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Re:A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the... by jeromegv on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @11:17PM (#19688447)
Yes, and the point is that we are destroying the environment by selling stuff that has no real usefulness, this isn't really a great future.
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Re:A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the... by bobthepanda on Thursday April 18, 2019 @01:08AM (#19688871)
The article mentions that they only buy returned overstock items from manufacturers at steep discounts. So this stuff was getting made anyways.
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Re:A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the... by glenneroo on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:37AM (#19691297)
Not quite true. From the article:

> Almost half of its products are leftover goods that manufacturers couldn’t otherwise sell.

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Re:A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the... by max_wen on Thursday April 18, 2019 @12:24AM (#19688686)
I bought a suitcase there and used it to travel the world. I would definitely consider it "useful".
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Re:A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the... by Phillipharryt on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:02AM (#19691053)
The problem isn't that they sell no useful items, they just sell so many items that even if a small percentage (it's not a small percentage) are destined for landfill then they're creating an astonishing amount of waste.
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