[Brendinooo]

>About half of the items marked for destruction were still in their shrink-wrap, while the other half were returned items in good condition, they said.

They're destroying new products too!

[chrisseaton]

'In good condition' and appearing to still be in original shrink-wrap isn't good enough to sell as new to a consumer though.

You can try to offload it via a box of junk auction, and they do do that, but I'm not sure how tractable it is at scale.

[TheAdamist]

Counterfeit, recalled, hazardous, unlicensed, etc items can all be "new". And need to be destroyed.

The article is heavy on implication and light on facts.

They are destroying things for a reason, which isn't given. It could be a bad reason of course, but probably isn't.