On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:09:23 -0500, "~ Windsong ~"
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===$$ How sickening. Think how much old people in a NH, or disabled shut-ins
===would love to have them. It's crossed my mind how much the elderly or
===disabled would love some of those plants piled up behind the Wal-Mart store.
===
=== I know that doesn't apply to the WalMart thing, but just reminded me of my
=== little stories. I agree that it seems awfully wasteful of WalMart to just
=== toss them and would seem harmless to let people take them for free if they
=== were just going in the dumpster.
===
===$$ 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.


This is exactly how I feel. Our local Lowes may mark something down
but their dumpster is off limits and they never ever give anything for
free, even old pallets or broken pavers. Home Depot on the oter hand
has an area set up behind the store, and have pallets there with piles
of broken and busted merchandise like walkay pavers, edgers, plants,
busted bags of gravel and mulch with a big sign above the stuff saying
FREE.......For the most part stuff will remain laying there for a long
time, and even myself I will let a lot of stuff remain even if I could
use it "eventually"......its not like I just have to have it, and why
be selfish. Just yesterday I got 9 broken bags of cypress mulch and 11
bags of various bagged decorative stones etc, as well as a heap of
broken walk pavers.......and 8 bags of shredded tires listed as soft
playground mulch......The majority of plants and pavers and edgers I
have around my property and used in my pond construction were obtained
over time for free this way........They do not mind scratching my back
and I sure don't mind repaying the favor as I then spend more money or
at least try my best to utilize these places for any purchase I need.
I spend some serious money in Home Depot, but very little in places
like Lowes. Wal MArts reply to retreiving stuff from the dumpster is.
We do not allow it, but we are not going to make any effort to guard
our dumpster either........or go out of our way to prevent it. They
simply can't give permission to remove the stuff, but once in the
dumpster they are not going to stop you from retreiving plants etc
either..........its at this point when stuff is in the dumpster that
they met their responsibility in what their policy requires. Other
places will have you arrested for tresspassing if you dive their
dumpsters.........

I have also been known to get flowers from Wal MArts dumpster and also
from Home Depot, and take my time and nurse them back to health, and
take them and plant them at various roadway memorial markers you see
setup where people have been killed in accidents......This little act
gives me a sense of pleasure and presents no hazzard to roadways. I
have also nursed back to health a lot of plants and gave them to a
elderly care center nearby, which really made the residents
day..........I think there is much more to be gained for donating or
giving items away to be used by those less fortunate or by those that
really appreciate it even in a state of dissrepair than filling a
landfill up and increasing the bank account.

I sure did not intend for my original post to get so lengthy
especially when the only content about ponding was the fact they were
going to destroy and trash the liners..........
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