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Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses

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Re: Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses

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Post by Normille »

IntrepidWorm wrote: post #125
Normille wrote: post #120

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>I could care less You COULDN'T care less. Why can so many otherwise seemingly intelligent Americans not grasp this simple grammatical concept?

Considering that you very clearly understood the intent from context, it seems rather petty to point this out in an otherwise completely unrelated discussion.

The fact I "understood the intent" doesn't make it grate any less, whenever I set this phrase misused time after time by Americans. "I could care less" is literally the opposite of the sentiment you are trying to express.

Re: Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses

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Post by Hugsun »

BobbyJo wrote: post #96
CarelessExpert wrote: post #65

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> Economics are immune to guilt ... Regardless of the solution, moralizing is ineffective. I'm just gonna quickly point out: This is simply not true and I'm surprised you'd make the claim. PR is a huge deal for most companies, and public shaming through press coverage is a very effective way to raise awareness of issues and push for change. Nike, for example, didn't address issues of sweatshop labour out of the goodn…

Those are exceptions, not the rule. PR's importance is very variable. Nike, as a luxury brand, has to care what people think about it. People seeing it as a 'good' brand is the core of their business. This is simply not true for 99% of companies. Most companies on the planet could get all the bad PR in the world, and even if, by some miracle, you remembered their name, you wouldn't even know when you buying their pro…

Sometimes I wonder if I'm somehow paying Nestlé for the air I breathe. They are impossible to avoid.

Re: Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses

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Post by fallinghawks »

TylerE wrote: post #116
fallinghawks wrote: post #88

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Some items were new in box and sealed. It's the same situation as Amazon, except Amazon is at a vastly larger scale. The manufacturer isn't going to repair it and doesn't want it back.

How do you really verify that though? Many types of seal are pretty easy to fake, or at least replace with something that will LOOK factory to someone that doesn't see the same packaging repeatedly.

Hol'up, why would Petsmart fake seal items that are going to the dump?

Re: Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses

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Post by agotterer »

Normille wrote: post #131
IntrepidWorm wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering that you very clearly understood the intent from context, it seems rather petty to point this out in an otherwise completely unrelated discussion.

The fact I "understood the intent" doesn't make it grate any less, whenever I set this phrase misused time after time by Americans. "I could care less" is literally the opposite of the sentiment you are trying to express.

> Merriam-Webster treats the phrases couldn't care less and could care less as synonymous, both meaning "not concerned or interested at all." "Couldn't care less" is the older and more obvious phrase grammatically, but it has been confused for so long that both are now defined.

Thanks for your feedback. However, I’m going to stick with Webster on this one. Let’s also not forget that English has always been a hodgepodge of language mashups and slang.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/could-couldnt-...

Re: Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses

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Post by okprod »

IntrepidWorm wrote: post #124
okprod wrote: post #61

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For 5 years now I've actually been receiving Amazon returns at my office for some reason, and only for Raspberry Pi sound card components. I've tried contacting Amazon every way, including emailing the personal address of Jeff's (which led me to priority support), but they still keep shipping me these returns.

I fail to see the problem here.

I forgot to mention they're all labeled "defective"*
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