Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock every year, products that are often new and unused, an ITV News investigation has revealed.
Undercover filming from inside Amazon’s Dunfermline warehouse reveals the sheer scale of the waste: Smart TVs, laptops, drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones, computer drives, books galore, thousands of sealed face masks – all sorted into boxes marked “destroy”.
Read the full article on the ITV website
NAM Implications:
- Eventually the PR price (i.e. negative reaction to these revelations)…
- …will be factored into consumer-centric Amazon’s business model…
- …and the waste will be stopped at source.
