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by duiker101 1826 days ago
This article doesn't but the original itv article mentions it:

> Why are hundreds of thousands of products being destroyed in this way? The answer is Amazon’s hugely successful business model. Many vendors choose to house their products in Amazon’s vast warehouses. But the longer the goods remain unsold, the more a company is charged to store them. It is eventually cheaper to dispose of the goods, especially stock from overseas, than to continue storing the stock

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millio...