This company has no idea how to run itself. It's amazing they are still in business. I used to work in one of the warehouses.
It was awful how much money is literally just thrown away. We had an awful problem with outdated products, and I'm sure many warehouses have a similar problem. We often do donate a lot of stuff, but what happens is that a lot of stuff, including tons of display cases, end up just sitting because for a good while we had to wait for corporate to say get rid of it. One thing that drove us nuts is that display cases didn't get entered in the system as being a code dated item, and corporate controls the billing for those. Once corporate stopped billing them, they'd just sit there, spread throughout the warehouse in various locations. And often that was the end of it.
It might be 3 or 4 years later before corporate finally says, ok get rid of it. By then, if it was food or medicine, it was far out of date. I remember seeing nearly 100 PALLETS of display cases of Kellogg's cereal into the dumpster, a few days at a time.
Sometimes there was so much stuff to throw away that the director of the building would actually rent two roll on dumpsters that cost us like $2000 each time we had them emptied. Ironically, a lot of those things were big bulky display cases that were 95% cardboard and could have been recycled, but no one's got time to break them down so we'll just throw them out like that and wonder why the dumpster gets filled up so fast????
There were days and days when all we did was throw pallet after pallet after pallet into the dumpster.
And then Covid stuff?? The warehouse actually had to rent another building to store all the santitizer and toiler paper and covid gowns and gloves in. And then all the santizer expired - over 1000 (yes thousand) pallets of it. And they had to pay another company to have it disposed of!!!
When CVS declared the Covid emergency to be over, we threw pallets and pallets and pallets of gloves and covid gowns and masks into the dumpsters. And then we had pallets of boxes of the 9x12 clasp envelopes that they would send to the stores for the covid test results... just plain old envelopes that you could buy at Staples... they were going to throw them out but at least one of the maintenance guys took them to recycling. Like, why not at least send them to one of their bulk buyers who buys and resells their discontinued stuff?
CVS is a very wasteful place. I am glad to be out of there.
An excellent post by @tng+1nVXsZ8h, deserving of its own thread.