• ezyryder@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    “liability” being a euphemism for artificial scarcity. Ever seen those videos of employees forced to cut up perfectly good clothes or that girl fired from Dunkin for donating donuts they told her to throw away? they need to keep their prices up and destroy their own product to do so.

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      damn damn damn damn damn there’s a really expensive blazer with a real faint paisley i wanted to buy ten or so years ago and looked great in but i didn’t have 700 bucks in the jacket fund (i have bought 700 bucks worth of regret tho) so i left it in the store. and just hoped i would somehow run into it somewhere, sometime in the future. not as fabric shreds.

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      I work at an auto parts scrap facility and you’re right on the money. Besides defective parts, there is a mind boggling amount of brand new parts that never make it into a car. Anything that the automaker can’t sell gets shredded and destroyed so resellers can’t get at them and the automaker gets a cut of the refund for the materials.