I’m not defending Amazon here but this kind of thing is completely normal. I know someone who worked for a major auto parts store. Every year they dug a huge trench in the field behind the warehouse and just buried old stuff to make room for the new inventory. https://t.co/yqEcVG1wfW

— Susannah Tysor (@scisus) June 25, 2021

Amazon shouldn’t be doing this, but every single large retailer does this. It’s just a standard and terrible practice in the industry.

On average, about 10-20% of anything a retailer buys is destroyed, even if it works perfectly well.