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by tweetle_beetle 1827 days ago
The data was gathered by an undercover reporter who presumably had limited access to systems and reported on what they could. Amazon were free to provide the context, but chose not to. They are also virtually alone in the scale of their business, so context stops really having any meaning: even if they actually destroy ten times less (as a percentage of items sold) than other smaller retailers, a single Amazon warehouse in a single country destroying ~20,000 items a day is still noteworthy.