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[–] 35 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    And this was absolutely illegal unless they reclaimed the Freon first. You could have made bank reporting them. It is like 10k an infraction.

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