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well look at this..... i hate chain stores

ThePepperManiac

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i was at cvs today and was walking around when i see the worker putting all of burpee seeds in a garbage bag so i quietly followed here and what do you know she was gonna throw them in the dumpster can you belive the nerve of them so i stopped here and took them so now i have 109 packets of all different vegtables and herbs yeah me ...... sorry for picture quality was taken with ipod



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your a seed hero LOL!!

i work for home depot and they throw away thousands of seeds at the end of the grow time, it would just make ya sick!!

i would love to do the same thing you just did but i would lose my job over it


that sucks!!

thanks your friend Joe
 
do the packages have an expiry date? years ago, i bought tepin seeds from a large chain store then the next year i never seen them, no way they could have sold out as there were so many packages at all the various locations, plus the seed manufacturer no longer lists the tepin product - one can only guess what happened to the seeds from all the stores that carried them.

last fall, i bought beet seeds for .25 cents, today the seeds have grown into large wholesome plants with beautiful beet root. the leaves are gigantic and i have used many in my salads.
 
What Burning Colon said... expiry/sow by date might be one explanation? Still ridiculous though. At least offer them to shoppers at the register or something!

Sadly, seeds are nothing though compared to the food large supermarkets, etc, throw away. Think a homeless person would turn their nose up at something still good but at it's best before date?
 
gasificada said:
What Burning Colon said... expiry/sow by date might be one explanation? Still ridiculous though. At least offer them to shoppers at the register or something!

Sadly, seeds are nothing though compared to the food large supermarkets, etc, throw away. Think a homeless person would turn their nose up at something still good but at it's best before date?
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It's just business. American style.
 
Burpees has an agreement with all retailers it deals with. They will reimburse the retailer a certain percentage for any seeds left after a certain date. The retailer makes a count then destroys the remaing seeds.

Pretty standard contract on seasonal merc,handise.

CVS employee violated the contract by not destroying them.
 
the package says packed for 2012 season but i will use them next year i dont care..... that makes me sick ajijoe they wont let you have them? have you ever asked? when you get off work go get them and they wont even know lol..... i dont see why they would have to destroy them armac that is such a waste they should at least put them at the counter saying free and then people can take them instead of throwing them out..
 
It's how the world works.
If they get out of date or out of season without being sold and they were given away for free, then people considering buying it would not buy it, and wait it out until they were given away for free. So they can't be given away.
Low cost goods, magazines, books, newspapers and seasonal items normally operate in this manor, as returns and freight cost and shelf life is more than what the product is worth.

Why aji joe and why the CVS employee shouldn't give them away is because it would be fraud. Producers don't often want the old goods shipped to them because they are useless for resale and it would be a waste of money and transport costs, so they give the retailer the benefit of taking them off the market and making them disappear, ie pretend they were returned without the hassle, retailers get reimbursed for unsold 'returned' stock. If those products are given away then it ruins that process, breaks the cycle that makes that system work without freight costs.
So by getting free seeds, the producer is ripped off (gets nothing from the sale and has to reimburse the retailers for the privilege), the retailer fraudulently claims seeds were destroyed to the producer but didn't take them off the market.
 
tylerdodd25_92 said:
the package says packed for 2012 season but i will use them next year i dont care..... that makes me sick ajijoe they wont let you have them? have you ever asked? when you get off work go get them and they wont even know lol..... i dont see why they would have to destroy them armac that is such a waste they should at least put them at the counter saying free and then people can take them instead of throwing them out..
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Giving away product is counterproductive to sales, if everybody knows a product will eventually be free, they would never buy.


It is business, Tyler you will learn as you get older.


Expiration dates are strictly put on for regulation purposes, we all know seeds last a long time.


Business, not always logical, but there are reasons for all decisions, although we may not be privy to the inside information.
 
Pablo_h said:
It's how the world works.
If they get out of date or out of season without being sold and they were given away for free, then people considering buying it would not buy it, and wait it out until they were given away for free. So they can't be given away.
Low cost goods, magazines, books, newspapers and seasonal items normally operate in this manor, as returns and freight cost and shelf life is more than what the product is worth.

Why aji joe and why the CVS employee shouldn't give them away is because it would be fraud. Producers don't often want the old goods shipped to them because they are useless for resale and it would be a waste of money and transport costs, so they give the retailer the benefit of taking them off the market and making them disappear, ie pretend they were returned without the hassle, retailers get reimbursed for unsold 'returned' stock. If those products are given away then it ruins that process, breaks the cycle that makes that system work without freight costs.
So by getting free seeds, the producer is ripped off (gets nothing from the sale and has to reimburse the retailers for the privilege), the retailer fraudulently claims seeds were destroyed to the producer but didn't take them off the market.
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good points i know i will be going to the stores end of season seeing what seeds they are throwing away though

armac said:
Giving away product is counterproductive to sales, if everybody knows a product will eventually be free, they would never buy.


It is business, Tyler you will learn as you get older.


Expiration dates are strictly put on for regulation purposes, we all know seeds last a long time.


Business, not always logical, but there are reasons for all decisions, although we may not be privy to the inside information.
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good point... yeah if people knew they were gonna be free they wouldnt buy them in the first place.... i know i will be going to the stores to see what they are throwing away next season too lol
 
The system is what it is because why pay money for postage and freight and processing time, just to throw it all in an incinerator and burn fuel and pollute more etc?
If the retailers throw it away, so much less pollution, time and money wasted. If they start giving it away instead, manufacturers and producers may get annoyed with lost sales, and require all materials sent back. That's just going to add more cost for us, more pollution.
 
as i said above i work for home depot :confused: (MORE SLAVING MORE SCREWING THAT'S THE POWER OF THE HOME DEPOT)>"dig on there slogan "more savings more doing that's the power of the home depot"

they cannot write it off and be compensated unless they give it to a charitable cause or throw it away, they occasionally do donate to organizations but seems 99 point something percent of the time they just pitch it
because they dont care
and its sad what they throw away

here is a list of some things i seen
thrown away that were perfectly fine of just missing pieces or not

this stuff could go to underprivileged people but no


seeds >>countless amounts (burpee mostly)

countless amounts useable of wood

misc items that could be discounted ( this is one of the bigger tragedies)

plant bulbs

plants (healthy and could have been discounted)

plants pots and garden items (that could have been discounted)

they have no problem discounting items that they cant throw away such as light bulbs and chemicals like drain opener because there considered "UNIVERSAL WASTE" and must be disposed of properly (mercury) EPA regs


IT SEEMS THEY WOULD RATHER THROW IT OUT THAN GIVE SOMEONE AND FOR THAT MATTER THERE EMPLOYEES A CHANCE AT THE STUFF, its REALLY DISCONCERTING!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

TYLER I HATE THE BIG BOXES TOO AND I WORK FOR ONE!!

thanks your friend Joe
 
tylerdodd25_92 said:
yeah thats sucks joe! have you ever asked if you can get some of the stuff..... or did they say that employees cannot have the stuff?
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They think they can't give it away because if they allowed it then more products would all of a sudden start showing up as unsaleable so that employees could take it home and if\when they did catch someone taking things they'd be unable to do anything about it if that person just claimed it was being taken because it was unsaleable and they thought it was OK to take it since policy allowed it. -- (ie. if you knew they would give you something if it was non functional how hard would it be to break it in some repairable fashion - take it home and fix it instead of buying it.)
 
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