My wife has been addicted to watching dumpster diving videos where people end up finding brand new expensive things thrown away by retailers. It made me remember reading somewhere that the reason they do this is because it’s cheaper for them to throw away or destroy their inventory than it is to give it away or sell at discount. HOW???
I don’t see how they could possibly save money by destroying inventory rather than putting it on extreme discount. Surely they could make more money selling at an extreme discount versus no money at all by destroying .
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Cost of storage is the big one. Rent a storage unit for $200 a month, then try to cover that cost with an Amazon store sell 300-500 items a week and you realize that it takes a bigger chunk than you realized. Costs don’t go down when you scale up. Inventory that won’t sell just takes up space in a warehouse you pay for by the square foot
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