Eli5: what happens to clothing in stores like Macy that goes on huge clearances and never get bought?

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Eli5: what happens to clothing in stores like Macy that goes on huge clearances and never get bought?

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They get sold to cheap outlet stores first. Then they often get sold to foreign traders who dump them onto 3rd countries like Ghana -where they stimulate local dollar economies, before the final rejects are discarded in giant trash heaps, burned, or washed into oceans.

Here is a shocking 30 min documentary on it,