[baybal2]

> The report would be a lot more useful if there were some context for this data. How many items do comparable places like Wal Mart warehouses destroy each week?

Enormous amounts of all, and everything. I worked for most of my life in the cheaper side of electronics industry.

Brands themselves often destroy huge amount of unsold stock.

Apple famously quietly buys their iStuff from industrial refurbishers for destruction, to reduce the number of second hand iphones going around, and intentionally made engineering choices to make refurbishing very hard before.

"Luxury" brands often mandate their retailer to always destroy unsold stock, and set goals like "no more discount for you if you let stock to hang on the shelves longer than 3 months"