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Re:Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in on... by trynumber9 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:48AM (#27592351)
Is it a different industry? Any customer-focused retail that readily accepts returns will inevitably have returned items that are difficult to resell.
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Re:Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in on... by jliptzin on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:50AM (#27592386)
And in that situation the retailer is just throwing away the product for the consumer who returned it; otherwise the consumer would probably have just thrown it away.
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