Have you seen Buy Now! the Shopping Conspiracy on Netflix?
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This subversive documentary unpacks the tricks brands use to keep their customers consuming — and the real impact they have on our lives and the world.
Plenty of dirty behaviour from manufactures like:
A lot of info about manufacturers deliberately sell poor quality products, and they even sent lawsuits to Ifixit because company was repairing their products.
It also shows that shops like food stores or for example Michael Kors, Amazon and others destroy good products instead of gifting them for charity, homeless, poor etc.
Some managers of brands said to employees to pour expensive hygiene products like soaps to the bins so homeless people couldn't use them as they didn't want brand to be associated with homeless.
Michael Kors destroyed expensive bags and luggages.
Gamestop destroyed good games instead of gifting to orphanages or poor families.
Amazon destroyed expensive toys like for example LEGO sets worth 120 USD, but in here makes me wonder what they are doing with Amazon resale. In this case I didn't really believe in this, but they showed some footage.
If you have seen it what's your opinion
I saw this last week S, i was shocked as to the amount of perfect waste goods going to landfill
telmel They could just give it to the employees or charity but they just cut them and throw them away.
What you think about what they said about for example Amazon, they said Amazon destroyed so many good toys, but in my opinion Amazon do sell a lot of returned products in Amazon resale, even used products. I am a bit skeptical about this.
telmel That leave a bad taste in my mouth. They prefer to destroy items to not be associates with poor or vulnerable. Also how much it cost to manufacture that they just cut them to pieces or throw them away without a second thought.
But what strikes me the most it that they throw toys away instead of gifting to orphanages, hospices or hospitals. That's just disgusting
SebK84 they obviously keep prices high to cover all this wastage but if they sold these goods cheaper with no waste, profits would be the same, it just doesn't make sense. To me this is criminal and should not be allowed when there is so much need in the world.
It makes me so upset I could cry, it's CEOs in effect unashamedly giving the finger to those in need while they live the good life. I have no hope whatsoever for mankind.
I can believe it. They will donate/resell some to make themselves look good but just enough to green wash it. Disgusting how these companies are
American is terrible for it, I've seen Facebook videos of the dumpster divers , and the stuff they find in dumpsters is unbelievable, in massive quantities too, from top quality brands
Years ago well known brands sent perfectly good things to incinerators because the offer had finished,
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