oh - by the way - i found one of those 70 lumens armormax headlamps for a penny! now if only they had 383 of them, i could have bought them all for $3.83 thus making dchomak’s words come true.
You guys are really are lucky, our local HD doesn’t have stock of any of the deals in this thread.
Remember those LED work lights that were discussed a few pages back? Turns out I missed them by a couple of days, guy in lighting told me they either went into the crusher out back or were returned to the vendor.
Thats what the guy told me. In disbelief I asked a lady that usually helps me as I was on my way out, she said the same thing.
Also said that if you are a charity organization and speak with the manager that sometimes they’ll donate the items that are to be crushed.
Reason the crusher thing came up is after he said they were “tossed out back” I jokingly said “I guess that would have been a good day to dumpster dive”, he said “wouldn’t have done you any good, it goes into a crusher”.
Thats the reason I asked the lady up front, makes no sense to crush merchandise, old or not.
Edit: At the risk of going to jail for trespassing, I should drive around back and see if they actually have a crusher lol. I’d be sick if it was full of LED work lights, its the only thing our store had on clearance that was even remotely interesting.
Yeah, I used to work at a store in the same strip, we used the road behind there as a shortcut all the time. Usually a few employees out there smoking, but I don’t remember anything else. I’ll drive through there in the next couple of days and look.
There’s no way they would be that dumb. They’d literally be throwing away potentially millions of dollars in revenue annually if all stores crushed their pulled items. Surely they resell the pulled items to some company at a deep discount, by tonnage or at least for scrap?
You would think. But I guess if they write it off as a loss in doesn’t matter one way or anther? And then there would be the problem of someone else selling their store branded stuff, IDK if they’d allow that? Theres a company in Florida that sells containers full of that type of merchandise, mixed returns and old or pulled stock, so that does happen.
I will add this though, when I was in college I worked in management for a national retail store that was bought out by another entity, and when our re-branding was done we were ordered to toss a lot of perfectly useable stuff. Not everything, and it was a one time deal of course, but I guess it can happen. On a regular basis, I have my doubts. Maybe he was full of it and she wasn’t sure and just agreed instead of saying so.
I’m not sure honestly, but thats what they told me.