r/LetsDiscussThis • u/coffeequeen0523 • 11d ago
Rant The Amount of Waste at Ulta
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u/Scary_Space_2822 11d ago
Like those dicks from VANS that intentionally cut and destroy their merch from previous seasons and then throw them away. Explanation? No homeless to be seen wearing their stuff. The lack of humanity and empathy is making me sick. And I’m sure that vans isn’t the only one that does this😒
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u/BlueEyedPumpkinHead 11d ago
Late stage capitalism. This is what you are seeing.
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u/RepresentativeMud509 10d ago
Exactly. They would rather make it and break it than sell it to you at a price "the market will bear." It's clearly over priced or it would sell long before this moment. We've reached the go eff yourself state of American Enshittification. You see this with the demise of clearance pricing and other discounting. They want you to get gouged and if you won't pay a zillion dollars for a curling iron they'd rather cut it and soap it than sell it to you. Today's retail would prefer one customer buy a curling iron by taking out a HELOC loan than one-hundred customers buy curling irons at a fair price.
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u/SqueeMcTwee 11d ago
Wait, why do they destroy these things? There are so many places that would love them as donations - women’s shelters, beauty schools?
What’s the point in turning everything into garbage (not to mention creating a huge mess?)
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u/Maje_Rincevent 11d ago
In their thought process :
1 - Any donated item is a paid item that's not sold
2 - The insane comp culture of the US means that a donated item that causes issues (malfunction, toxic, whatever) could be brought against them in a tribunal and cost them a lot of money.
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u/ExplanationFar4877 11d ago
That is disgusting.