Walmart and H &M New York Destroy Unsold Clothing

1/08/2010 02:40:00 PM ·

I would love to have a post today discussing the positives of traveling to New York, however what I read today on the front page of Yahoo makes me utterly sick.

Now, I'm sure many of you rushed out the day after Christmas to shop for huge after holiday deals and steals, and really, that's what we are looking for after overspending on full price products. But, would you ever imagine that if the stores couldn't offer you that $3.00 Tshirt for a lower price because you still thought that would break the bank, that they would throw it in the dumpster?

That's exactly what Walmart and H & M in New York did with their clothing items they couldn't sell. I don't know what pisses me off more. The fact that they could have donated all of those items to people that actually needed them, or let's see, the fact they paid someone to actually cut the tips off of gloves and holes in shirts.

The discovery was made by Cynthia Magnus, a graduate student (wondering why she was back there by the dumpster in the first place), who found several trash bags outside the H & M store filled with socks, shirts, men's jackets, to name a few. There were also bags found with Walmart tagged clothing dumped by a contractor.

Over a 1/3 of the population in New York is poor, and let's not forget, what about the other millions of people freezing and starving all over the world.

So let us rejoice and run out this morning to support big business. Yeah right! It's this type of irresponsible behavior that gives people that actually donate a bad name.

Aww, Walmart and H & M.......Starving the City One Ripped Tee Shirt At a Time.

To hear more rants about this subject, or to just hear it from the ultimate man blogger, check out Glenn's blog Man-Over-Board.

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ManOverBoard.com said...
January 9, 2010 12:26 PM  

Wow Lauren, I had no idea that you also ran this blog also. Where or where to you find the time to do such much? I wish you would do a post on that, I could sure get some great pointers from your lifestyle, that's for sure. I know I need to take a typing class for sue, my two finger typing is just not cutting it anymore, lol.

Thank you so much for adding my rant also into this foolish and unfortunately,not so common practice. Corporate America is doing unimaginable things to the customers that once were loyal beings and friends. Now when you cay corporate or WalMart you get bad connotations and feelings.

I once worked in a large mall and a famous candy store closed down. They had the most expensive chocolate you could buy. Instead of sending the unopened, boxed candy to another one of there stores, they simply went to the dumpster and shot it all away. Why???

I have no answers except, like you, keep making more people aware and maybe as a larger voice we can make a change.

By the way, I love this blog almost as much as AD and you now have another new reader.

Thanks for all your hard work and passing your intelligent thoughts to all of us. Glenn

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