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Old 01-08-2010, 12:25 PM
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My Mom has to do this once a month where she works, it makes her sick. They have to cut up the dresses "beyond repair". Its worse when one of the girls that work under her ask for the dress before she cuts it up.
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Old 01-08-2010, 12:45 PM
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You would think that these companies would have a charitable outlet for these discards!! Just freakin wrong
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Old 01-08-2010, 02:28 PM
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You would think that these companies would have a charitable outlet for these discards!! Just freakin wrong
Even if these companies have no heart, I would still think that it would be more profitable to donate these items to charity. Wouldn't the companies get a tax write-off if they donated the clothes to charity?
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Old 01-08-2010, 02:52 PM
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Even if these companies have no heart, I would still think that it would be more profitable to donate these items to charity. Wouldn't the companies get a tax write-off if they donated the clothes to charity?
I worked in California for a grocery chain that helped with alot of charitable
concerns, mostly for the needy. It's unconscionable for this to happen.
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Old 01-08-2010, 03:02 PM
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You would think that these companies would have a charitable outlet for these discards!! Just freakin wrong
Exactly. Just. Freakin'. Wrong.
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Old 01-08-2010, 03:09 PM
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Keeps the people in the 3rd world sweatshops working.
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Old 01-08-2010, 03:27 PM
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You'd think it would be more financially valuable to these corporations (let alone showing a far more enlightened corporate morality) to strip the labels and donate to charity, than to destroy and deal with as unsold inventory.

We'll see what their short-term PR responses are.
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They don't destroy anything that was made in The U.S.A. Maybe it's not that big of a deal.
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Old 01-08-2010, 10:27 PM
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They don't destroy anything that was made in The U.S.A. Maybe it's not that big of a deal.
People going without proper clothing in winter is a big deal to me.
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Old 01-08-2010, 10:47 PM
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Keeps the people in the 3rd world sweatshops working.


Exploiting the less fortunate to over produce crap, and then destroying the same crap because there's too much of it. Welcome to Rome.
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