How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All – The Atlantic – Pocket
Consumerism 📍
📽️ Videos
Online Shop Stainless Wall Mounted Bathroom Toilet Paper Holder Rack Tissue Roll Stand Bathroom Accessory Parts | Aliexpress Mobile
Ever need to put down your phone while wipping your butt? The Chinese have the product for you!
No Advertising Here
While I could probably make a few hundred bucks a year on my blog, I choose not to do advertising because I find it to be kind of annoying. 🛍 My blog isn’t that expensive to pay for the hosting, maybe $100 a year, 🕸and it gives me an outlet to share my experiences and continue to expand my knowledge of GIS and mapping through practical experience. 🗺 I don’t have internet at home, instead using public hotspots and my phone, so I figure the cost of hosting is far less then what I would pay for general internet.
Burberry, H&M, and Nike destroy unsold merch. An expert explains why.
"The British luxury brand Burberry brought in $3.6 billion in revenue last year — and destroyed $36.8 million worth of its own merchandise."
"In July 2018, the brand admitted in its annual report that demolishing goods was just part of its strategy to preserve its reputation of exclusivity."
"Shoppers did not react well to this news. People vowed to boycott Burberry over its wastefulness, while members of Parliament demanded the British government crack down on the practice. The outrage worked: Burberry announced two weeks ago it would no longer destroy its excess product, effective immediately."
"Yet Burberry is hardly the only company to use this practice; it runs high to low, from Louis Vuitton to Nike. Brands destroy product as a way to maintain exclusivity through scarcity, but the precise details of who is doing it and why are not commonly publicized. Every now and then, though, bits of information will trickle out. Last year, for example, a Danish TV station revealed that the fast-fashion retailer H&M had burned 60 tons of new and unsold clothes since 2013."