Plenty of companies do this rather than donate their products once they reach end of life. But many times things that could be at least recycled(books, for example) or composted(food) to save the Earth by decreasing landfill space used are trashed due to either liability concerns(possibly spoiled food being donated to food banks and shelters) or because stores have agreements with publishers/manufacturers to destroy them for credit towards other products.

Gamestop and Best Buy do this with game guides that are printed on paper every so many months with district managers going so far as to fire employees giving away or taking home such things. Yet routinely you'll see videos on YouTube of people dumpster spaning behind GS stores and finding boxloads of untouched products.

Best Buy may actually send them back to a clearinghouse where they're repackaged and sold in bulk to places like Big Lots and other after market stores.

Stuff that goes salvage from stores like Target routinely end up at Goodwill stores in some areas of the country and chains like TJ Maxx and Marshall's have agreements with stores like J.C. Penney to buy their bulk castoffs once they go to salvage. I know this because I worked through a temp agency at a JCP in 2013 and we had to box up stuff from JCP to go to a TJX distribution center to be reticketed with their labels/tags.

But those two are the exception and NOT the rule. There's so much waste in this country.
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luxury brands burn millions worth of clothing so the "wrong" people

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