[jeromegv]

Yes, and the point is that we are destroying the environment by selling stuff that has no real usefulness, this isn't really a great future.

[bobthepanda]

The article mentions that they only buy returned overstock items from manufacturers at steep discounts. So this stuff was getting made anyways.

[glenneroo]

Not quite true. From the article:

> Almost half of its products are leftover goods that manufacturers couldn’t otherwise sell.

[max_wen]

I bought a suitcase there and used it to travel the world. I would definitely consider it "useful".

[Phillipharryt]

The problem isn't that they sell no useful items, they just sell so many items that even if a small percentage (it's not a small percentage) are destined for landfill then they're creating an astonishing amount of waste.