Your Amazon Returns Are Thrown in the TRASH

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So-called "free returns” aren’t free at all. In this video, I share the surprising truth about the lies corporations tell you to make you buy more, and what REALLY happens when you send it all back.

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SOURCES:
Consumers spend 1 trillion in 2022: http://tinyurl.com/yzfvb69t
A fifth of holiday spending done online: http://tinyurl.com/muv56j7p
Sales up 37% since pandemic: http://tinyurl.com/54ejzx7n
Amazon bought Zappos for 1.2 billion: http://tinyurl.com/2twu5htr
Consumers consider free returns most favored: http://tinyurl.com/3dp6633s
Consumers will pay more for free shipping: http://tinyurl.com/y2ct3sdj
Etsy instructed vendors to raise prices to disguise shipping fees: http://tinyurl.com/y2ct3sdj
Amazon Prime has 200 million members: http://tinyurl.com/4cd8e6fk
We return up to 40% of what we buy: http://tinyurl.com/2twu5htr
A minimal amount of returns ever make it back to the shelf: http://tinyurl.com/2twu5htr
“Apparel is like vegetables”: http://tinyurl.com/2twu5htr
34 billion pounds of textile waste: http://tinyurl.com/ytspevcv
Fashion industry destroys product to avoid resale: http://tinyurl.com/3bee84wa
Mountain of clothes in Chilean Desert: http://tinyurl.com/mr938t8x
Robots can’t sew: http://tinyurl.com/4jabjmz8
Child Labor: https://youtu.be/_ve6BqXzbjw?si=wfAgtAZQuWknBeSd
Amazon delivery drivers pee in bottles: http://tinyurl.com/4fydumyx
Amazon warehouse workers pee in bottles: http://tinyurl.com/5ebdu6ea
Returns in landfills nearly doubled since 2019: http://tinyurl.com/32z37ufr
Some brands have their own secondhand stores: http://tinyurl.com/4pz72p7v
Lululemon founder blames women for see through pants: https://abc7news.com/archive/9317396/
Lululemon founder isn’t opposed to child labor: http://tinyurl.com/ycktb4er
Lululemon founder dishonest with SEC: http://tinyurl.com/2v6nx8yw



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