That to make those avery labels in the box you can buy at the store, it takes the following steps: A truck to transport the wood products or recycle products to produce the paper. A truck to transport the chemicals to make the paper. A truck to transport the chemicals to produce the shiney film to be able to peel the label A truck to transport the rolls to the place that applies the shiney film to the paper A truck to transport the rolls from the shiney coat place to the cutter place A truck to trasnsport the paper to make th boxes to stick the labels in A truck to transport the chemicals to make the box paper A truck to transport to the DC of the store chain A truck to transport to the store for sale. So nine trucks to get those labels. You could only attempt to imagine what it took to make other stuff and I did leave out some things too in that process. I say all this why? It would seem far less costly and more consumer worthy if they would centralize all this instead of all this transport. We are not talking like from on end of town to another, we are talking like bringing paper from Alabama to NJ to Ohio to Texas. Why bring paper from AL to NJ when they make paper in NJ? Its all so insane and I get paid to participate in the madness.
It's called economics, if its cheaper for them to ship it in as opposed to buying from a local, then yea, they'll do that instead.
Yep, economics, cost of business. I worked in retail and the clothes that don't sell and are discontinued, apparantly they are 'destroyed'. Destroyed means they are thrown in the landfill, burned or somethin' like that. NO, they are NOT donated to charity cos some of these are high-end clothing and that would devalue the brand. My bet (and my hope) is that they are stored in a warehouse and in later years are bought by those in the vintage business and brought back to market as vintage.
