[viraptor]

It's not that's obvious to be honest. We already know that expensive brands will destroy their stock rather than lower prices / allow donations.

This happens with electronics (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2019/06/04/france-ba...), clothes (https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5bad1ef2e4b09d41eb9f7bb0), food (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-dest...), etc.

[crazygringo]

Amazon isn't a luxury brand.

And if there are any luxury brands Amazon sells (are there even?) where the brands demanded Amazon return returned items to the brand for destruction... well then it's the brand that's responsible, not Amazon.

Again, Amazon's just out there to make money. It's not going to destroy swathes of merchandise it can easily otherwise make money off of. That kind of goes against the whole profit motive.