big tax write offs are a huge perk for clothing donations as long as you have the documentation to prove the donation of each item. they can and should but wont.

Originally posted by xsheep
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About time someone pointed the finger to the insane waste of good food
and other recyclable items that are thrown out as garbage


How can a anyone throw away food/clothing
when their neighbors(People in their community )
are cold and hungry


there are many charities that would be glad of such stuff
and all it takes is a phone call to find out ...which charity needs what

It is called greed. If we cant sell it, no one will have it. Greed Arrogance, and a lack of compassion are what is going to destroy us.

I used to work at H&M and the first time they asked me to do this I refused. They had someone else do it, so the next time I volunteered and stuffed all of it into my locker in the back room. From that day forth little by little I would take these clothes out with me at the end of the night and give them to my local Goodwill. That policy is a bunch of BS and really needs to be looked at.

I did not read all replies, so it was probably mentioned before, but I worked retail once, stock boy, it is common place in almost all store chains to ruin unsold clothing.

You know that shirt you bought? The one with the loose thread or the little hole? It gets destroyed even further and thrown out.

Discount stores are not the problem. They are entreprenuerial enterprises which the bold often had calculated their odds and risks to the very last cent.

The issue starts when they start to cut operational overhead costs such as wages. Yes, many employers will often allude to 'market forces dictate.' when it comes to salary scales. But how much is too much or too little when it is either called exploitation or slavery?

There needs to be a line drawn somewhere, even if the boss himself accepts a $2,000 salary ( which I doubt very much the Walmart CEO accepts on top of his perks, a joke really) under the hypocrisy of 'noble' sacrifice to serve the poor.

And the real problem and topic of this thread is not about how companies function, but rather - WHAT they do to their EXPIRED and UNWANTED products, which prevents it from reaching to the needy and the less priviledge that exist in every society.

They could at-least have given the items to charity by cutting off all tags, labels, and logos from the clothing or just got $10 worth of sharpies and blacked out everything.

Is it really that hard to cut off a Nike swoosh or any other logo off something clothing leaving a hole in it but otherwise usable.

Most coats have logos just below the shoulders on either the left or right side
and it would not be that hard to just slash all the coats in that spot.

Good post, good topic. S & F

This is not to explicitly rag on WalMart on my part but to show the arrogant corp. attitude prevalent in America.

Well, my comment is to explicitly rag on Walmart. As someone with personal experience with the company, I cannot express enough the degree of selfishness, mistreatment of both employees and customers, and corruption within the company. Walmart is becoming more and more an automated business. By that I mean very few decisions are actually being made by people - they're being made by a computer. A computer is free from emotion and any sense of right and wrong. So is Walmart. They'll blame the mix-up on the system.

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I worked midnights at walmart over the summer here in canada. we were doing renovations to it.
the # I saw disgusted me.

We had to take down a ceiling fan display, you know those...you walk in the isle and theres fans all above you, yeah brand new fans. we took them down with care only to find out they were going directly to the compacter in the back.

there was a memory foam matrice i had to dispose of, I had to throw it in a 12 foot dumpster out back and was told to cut the # out of it first, maul it with my box cutter to it was un-usable to any scavengers. I didnt, i just threw it in there, i figured if someone wants it bad enough, they deserve it.

Ive seen them throw shopping carts full of food into the compactor because it was nearing its expiration date, it was 3 days away! they should give that # to a shelter on the stipulation that it is cooked and served that day. im sure shelters would love to have that.

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any thing you take back to walmart, ANYTHING, is taken to the back, the UPC is scanned and then it is thrown into the compactor. (unless its a hazardous material, spray paint, paint, cleaners, etc)



walmart is disgusting

Maybe we need a thirdary market? It just does NOT make any sense to discard anything for so many #ing reasons.

1)First THEY pollute the enviroment MUCH MORE than is necessary.

2)They should order LESS merchandise or be more careful in stacking up items that have a questionable demand.

3)They don't have to donate anything if they don't want to since it is THEIR merchandise but throwing away items just to protect the label is ABSOLUTE STUPIDTY! Why not build several off-site warehouses and stack up items that don't get easily sold? At that point they can re-sell those items at a big discount to a goodwill/charity foundation AND STILL COLLECT A FEW BUCKS rather than nothing at all OR re-stock stores with this "outdated merchandise" at some later point and thus make sales...

4)Cut off any labels and spray paint stuff with graffiti, THEN donate directly to charity! The needy will stay warm and the companies can still sell their coveted and overpriced merchandise. Everybody wins and everybody is happy...............Does it take a genius to figure out solutions?

I think its PURELY a case of non-caring greed that dooms our world and its people. This will lead to their demise and the sooner, THE BETTER!

That's wrong of Walmart,they should give those clothes to the needy. If they would do that,it would be a great gesture on their part!