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Amazon: the shittiest, most ghastly company on earth
sokoloff:
Expiration dates are overwhelmingly quality/taste/freshness related, rather than food-safety related.
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/food-product-dating
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: Bud on July 06, 2021, 02:49:58 pm ---And if someone gets sick or die from expired food poisoning, who wants to be held accountable?
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They are not supposed to sell you expired stuff.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: sokoloff on July 06, 2021, 03:31:25 pm ---Expiration dates are overwhelmingly quality/taste/freshness related, rather than food-safety related.
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/food-product-dating
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In the UK this is codified as "Best Before" dates for 'freshness' related things and "Use By" for food safety related things. So a packet of biscuits will get a "Best Before" date and a packet of raw meat will get a "Use By" date.
Circlotron:
--- Quote from: tszaboo on July 06, 2021, 01:39:28 pm ---There was this huge article that Zara H&M, and other fast fashion companies, instead of selling stock discounted, simply burns the remaining clothing. Because they want to keep it as a premium brand, and they want to charge way too much money for their clothing. Premium not by quality, by price. Status symbol. So we cannot have people getting it cheap.
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So they only get to rip off feather brained people that have too much money, and not poor people. I can live with that.
G7PSK:
--- Quote from: Gyro on June 29, 2021, 08:56:14 am ---
--- Quote from: Rick Law on June 29, 2021, 02:16:49 am ---
--- Quote from: aix on June 24, 2021, 04:50:02 pm ---I really don't get the economics of this, especially for higher-valued items. Rather than destroying the stock, would it not be advantageous for whomever owns it to sell it at a deep discount? Or is that harder to do than it sounds?
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The destruction like likely the cost of selling, fulfillment, plus book keeping exceeded the profit of the sale. So rather than throwing good money after bad, the wise choice for the seller might well be just path of minimum additional lost.
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The logical (and ridiculous) extension of this is telling Amazon 'I don't want this item, but give me a refund and I'm prepared to dispose of it at no further cost to you'.
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I have had several faulty items from Amazon on which they have refunded me or replaced the item and told me to dispose of the item or do whatever I wanted with it. On a couple of occasions I have repaired the item and continued to use it, but from amazons perspective it was cheaper to let me keep the item than pay for it to be returned. It is also not just Amazon that has the problem of returned goods due to British and EU law we have the right to return any item purchased on the internet within fourteen days without question, so particularly during the present Covid 19 situation there will be plenty of items returned which for hygiene reasons is just going to get dumped as Amazon is just not going to take risks.
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