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Once I worked for Lowe's. A home improvement warehouse.
There was a line of top end fridges. Think like $1900 for each in 1998.
Anyway. Word came down that our stock was discontinued and that we were to destroy them instead of sending them back.
I watched the dock supervisor verify 3x with management both local and corp..
And then run a carpet pole on a forklift through them one at a time and then toss them in the trash.
Absolutely disgusting.
Carpet pole
I worked for Home Depot for a while. Same thing there. Old stock gets discounted a few times, and if it doesn't sell, it literally goes into their trash compactor (if it fits). When I first started, I spent an entire shift just breaking apart material to fit in the compactor. (That doesn't happen often but usually it's just smaller clearance items that don't sell.)
Same. Worked in a warehouse. Getting ready for Christmas, we had like 5 pallets of last year's 55in tvs i had to break. Boss said it's way cheaper for that company to take the loss than bring them back to recycle parts or whatever.
I always thought this was insane when you could just give it to an auction house who deal with selling surplus by taking it off of your hands.
And this was absolutely illegal unless they reclaimed the Freon first. You could have made bank reporting them. It is like 10k an infraction.
Yeah this is a serious EPA violation. The refrigerant lines run through the sides of the enclosure, so piercing the sides likely vented the refrigerant.