"Lydia" wrote in message
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I used to work at Barnes & Noble. During peak retail times publishers
would
send us extra copies of books thought to be in higher demand in the "mass
market" format - that's the smaller size paperbacks. After said peak
season
ended and we had leftovers, the cover would be torn off and sent back to
the
publisher who would give the company credit for what they didn't sell.
The
staff were allowed to take 1 or 2 titles w/o their front covers home, but
the rest were torn up into small sections of book and thrown in the
dumpster! Surely those could have been donated to a charity organization
or
something. I always hated that.

$$ How sickening. Think how much old people in a NH, or disabled shut-ins
would love to have them. It's crossed my mind how much the elderly or
disabled would love some of those plants piled up behind the Wal-Mart store.

I know that doesn't apply to the WalMart thing, but just reminded me of my
little stories. I agree that it seems awfully wasteful of WalMart to just
toss them and would seem harmless to let people take them for free if they
were just going in the dumpster.

$$ Or mark then down to almost nothing like the Lowe's store does. This way
the store gets something, and people are very happy to remove this
merchandise from the manager's face. :-) It makes for good will.
--
Carol.... the frugal ponder...
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