Just what do you think the place receiving them does with them? When you donate to Goodwill or most any charity, they SELL them. Even if they went through enormous effort to specifically give them away to people who are going to use them, that still means less people looking to buy dresses and a depressed/diluted market. Got it? Jesus. Stop being so thick.
Note: Said imaginary charity would have spent resources and gained nothing from this "charitable" contribution if they actually did that.
lol needy people need wedding gowns?
"You would never in your life think let's spray paint a dress. Give it to somebody who need it, somebody that doesn't have the money," said Giannakakis.
Thick? I provide you a link on donated wedding gowns and you're thinking that people that have to go to Goodwill or a charity organization for a wedding gown are going to be able to afford one of these dresses in a bridal shop?
Different markets, nice job of comparing apples and oranges.
Are you retarded or something? My post was simply in response to someone who asked why the manufacture didn't try to get the dresses back. I was just saying that it probably wasnt worth the effort or time.
Eat a dick.
You should see what places like Pet Smart and Barnes and Noble throw out on a weekly basis that could go to a library or animal shelter.
I worked at PETsMART FDC20 (now PetSmart DC20) and they donated all damages to local shelters. The thing is, they prepped them as random pallets of litter and food and stated that the terms were "take it or leave it: no cherry-picking because it makes more work for us when we could have just thrown it all out" but the recipients would still come in and say "I'll take this... this... a little of this... that..." and so on.
I worked at PETsMART FDC20 (now PetSmart DC20) and they donated all damages to local shelters. The thing is, they prepped them as random pallets of litter and food and stated that the terms were "take it or leave it: no cherry-picking because it makes more work for us when we could have just thrown it all out" but the recipients would still come in and say "I'll take this... this... a little of this... that..." and so on.
hmm the one here locally throws out bags of cat and dog food if they are ripped or expired. The B&N throws out magazines after the new month ones come in and books that don't sell go in the dumpster. I'm not a tree hugger, but F they could at least recycle them instead of sending it to a landfill let alone educate some people.
hmm the one here locally throws out bags of cat and dog food if they are ripped or expired. The B&N throws out magazines after the new month ones come in and books that don't sell go in the dumpster. I'm not a tree hugger, but F they could at least recycle them instead of sending it to a landfill let alone educate some people.
IMO, if they didn't sell and went out of business, then destroyed the dresses to "keep the value up" then they weren't worth 5k to begin with.
Like many things the value is more dependent on people's perception rather than the cost to produce it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ses-spray-painted-graffiti-closing-store.htmlDavid's Bridal has issued an apology in response to irate consumers who yesterday saw pictures of wedding dresses being vandalised and thrown away.
The bridal retailer came under fire when staff of one of its smaller chains, Priscilla of Boston, were seen spray painting gowns after a store closure in Edina, Minnesota.
Responding to outrage that the dresses were not donated, David's Bridal said: 'While it has been Priscilla of Boston’s policy not to make donations of sample dresses that are in poor condition, we recognize that some of these dresses could possibly have gone to worthy causes.
Sheila Roth whose photographs clearly captured the scene of the pointless vandalism, inquired inside the store as to the reason they hadn't been donated to the needy.
She told Fox 9 News: 'I was told that "corporate" ordered that all the remaining inventory be destroyed... [and]... that it had something to do with the contracts with the labels.'
When KARE-TV contacted the chain to query the strange decision, this statement was originally issued in response:
'Priscilla of Boston has always donated quality bridal gowns to a variety of charitable causes. We do not, however, donate unsaleable dresses that are damaged, soiled or in otherwise poor condition.'
Talk about being selfish. Would not want someone else to benefit and get something for free!
It's like people who purposely ruin their car's engine, instead of selling the car for cheap to the scrap yard for someone else to benifit from the parts that are still good.
as said, if you have a contract where you get something back if you destroy it ..then it is entirely different.
as said, if you have a contract where you get something back if you destroy it ..then it is entirely different.
Yeah but still, it just shows how stupid of a society we live in, when it's the norm to destroy something that could go to someone else. Now wedding dresses is kinda silly, only people getting married (thus having lot of money if they can afford that) is a bad example, but this is seen with lot of stuff.
For example, before you could go to Tim Horton's and get a bag of donuts from the previous day. They were a little stale maybe but still good. Now they just throw them out. But with lawsuits and all that crap, it's better for them to waste them, then to take the chance of someone getting sick or w/e. It just boggles my mind the amount of waste we produce as humans, when it could very easily be prevented if it was not for the corporate, or political BS that makes us waste.
Knowing people who work and have worked at schools, if you want to talk about throwing away good items, look at your local public schools. The school lunch programs throws away a ton of food everyday. Food that is still good and edible. A dumpster worth of food a week is thrown away at most schools. They could feed a ton of homeless people with the amount of food these schools throw away, but they don't. The food is destroyed.
Complete meals are purchased, any part of the meal not eaten is destroyed. Imagine a 1000 complete meals a day are purchased, each with a fruit. If only 200 of those fruits are eaten a day, then 800 fruits are destroyed each day by the school.
Yeah but still, it just shows how stupid of a society we live in, when it's the norm to destroy something that could go to someone else. Now wedding dresses is kinda silly, only people getting married (thus having lot of money if they can afford that) is a bad example, but this is seen with lot of stuff.
For example, before you could go to Tim Horton's and get a bag of donuts from the previous day. They were a little stale maybe but still good. Now they just throw them out. But with lawsuits and all that crap, it's better for them to waste them, then to take the chance of someone getting sick or w/e. It just boggles my mind the amount of waste we produce as humans, when it could very easily be prevented if it was not for the corporate, or political BS that makes us waste.