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Of course they did. I've learned not to expect anything less from most industries - Borders did the same thing with a majority of the books they didn't sell when they liquidated :(
Other clothing companies throw out clothes with tiiiiny little imperfections and cut gigantic holes in them so nobody in the area can go through the bins and take any of it. Pretty disgusting.
I read this article yesterday and wasn't all that outraged. The merchandise they chose to destroy was their merchandise and they had the right to dispose of it in the way they wanted. They have no obligation to donate any of it.
On a similar note, Nestle chocolate does not allow any of its chocolate products to be donated. I volunteered at a Food Bank and when sorting through the supermarket donations any Nestle chocolate and certain other products of theirs' had to be thrown out.
I'm of the mind that just because a company has a right to do something, doesn't make it okay for them to exercise that right. Bottom line, they could have donated those expensive clothes to a good cause, but they didn't. No reason for them to destroy the merchandise except for outright greed (we can't get money, so nobody can enjoy this product).
@jocember: I disagree with you on just because they have a good product that it is able to be donated, they should be donated.
The company said that the dresses were damaged, worn out, etc. I know there are people saying they were in fact in good condidtion, but people's opinion of good condition vary. My good condition could be someone else's junk. It is entirely possible that Priscilla of Boston didn't want to donate an inferior product to tarnish it high quality of wedding gowns.
I just saw this on CNN -- http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/bestoftv/2012/01/03/mn-wedding-dress-priscilla-boston.kare
Really disgusted right now.
If the dresses were soiled and tarnished..why go through the great lengths of spraypainting them red? they were already "unusable", it just doesn't make sense. They knew people were going to take them out of the trash and they didn't want them to be able to use them, plain and simple. If their excuse for not donating them was quality, the spray painting still doesn't make any sense. People could have still used the fabric for things.. trims.. appliques..
Shame on them. They had an opportunity to do a good deed and instead chose the low road. Shame.
That's awful, what a waste. They could have at the very least been auctioned off at a very discounted rate, proceeds going to charity. Instead of, you know, just sitting in a dumpster with spray paint all over them.
Sometimes I am overwhelmed by how wasteful and selfish we are as a culture - and this is a prime example. Even if they didn't want the dresses donated, they could have cut them in a way that the silk could have been repurposed. :(
I just read that story and it is beyond awful. Who cares if the dress where not "up to their stadards" or "not wearable", I am pretty sure a lot of ladies wouldn't mind that and find a way to fix it. But how do you a fix a giant orange X in an otherwise beautiful gown.
This is terrible of them.
Of course a company can do what it wants with it's own inventory, but this is just in bad taste.
what's infuriating is that nobody who commented on the original article understood the point, AT ALL. They seemed to think that people were upset that they wouldn't be able to buy the gowns at a discount, which was completely not the point at all! Basic reading comprehension, folks.
I remember that there was a scandal just like this a few years ago involving H&M. They threw away all of their "out of season" clothing and cut everything into pieces so that no one could get them out of the trash.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/nyregion/07clothes.html
Apparently H&M was shamed into stopping.
@MrsNeutrino: Agreed, I was thinking the same thing.
I think it goes above and beyond ridiculous if you have to hire someone to spray your items with big red x's. It makes me think they knew that throwing them away wasn't necessarily the right thing to do but they did it anyway. Just another glaring example of corporate greed, as if we didn't have enough examples already.
This is very wasteful and disappointing. I can't believe how selfish a company would be. There were better ways to use those gowns than to throw them away.
I heard about this and all I thought was that I didnt feel nearly as shocked anymore that they were going out of business- people's perceptions of brands either kill them or make them massive. If the company wanted to recoup or possibly start over again, I think this is a very poor reflection on them. Yes, in a capitalist society they can do whatever they want as a private company but alot of companies now have to think of the social "profits" or "costs" of operating on a purely captialist model- many companies have mandates that reinforce social awareness so that this kind of stuff doesnt happen and the social cost of poor perception does not affect the bottom line of a company.
Honestly, for all the bad publicity, it actually makes them going out of business seem jusitfied to consumers in some way, because I think alot of us frown upon such a public display of wastefulness. Just to be smart, they should have donated them, but yet again, we have another company not thinking about the costs that could be associated with excerising their "right" as a private company to do what they will.
I read this story, too, and I am totally disgusted. It's a shame that this company chose to be so wasteful. I suppose they didn't have a "legal" obligation to donate these gowns, but I think they had a moral one.
You beat me to it. This bridal shop is local to me and I just saw the story on a news website so I started a post (didn't see this one).
@MrsNeutrino: Exactly. If they were so "damaged and unwearable," they wouldn't have needed to destroy them further. I can guarantee that some girl out there who can't afford a wedding dress would be more than happy to deal with a little rip or stain in order to wear a POB dress. So glad I didn't give them my business.
Part of me believes that it was their product and they can do what they want with them. But SERIOUSLY? They could have been donated to a good cause. Or used in another way. It was such a waste to do that and really makes them look bad. All they did was add to the big piles of garbage at the dump.
I guess it's a good thing they went out of business. This would be horrible for their "image". Makes me dislike David's Bridal even more than I did already.
@jocember: Actually, I am a librarian and the Borders that closed donated the books to the local libraries!
The church that we got married at gives away FREE WEDDINGS and they could have used a few of these gowns. Why did they close their doors?
Oh yuck! I think that's awful! 1) They didn't donate 2) They did not donate EVEN after requests 3) They spray painted them on purpose to make sure no one was able to use them.
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They threw away a ton of dresses instead of donating them to charity.
http://www.twincities.com/ci_19665018