Sunday

[susandennis]

Yesterday I started watching this strange little TV series on Peacock - Laid. I am now 4 eps in and cannot even figure out if I like it. I keep peeling away and watching something else and then going back.

Today is Costco. My plan is to get there just before 10 when they open, get my bacon, get my drugs and then maybe get a pizza to go (for eating today and for the freezer). A perfect plan would be to then whip by UPS and unload my Amazon return. But, UPS doesn't open until 11 and I'll be back home, safe and warm by then.

I saw a very cool story on the national news this week about what happens to retail returns - Amazons, etc. The story was pretty much all about the waste but they missed a great twist. They were in this huge warehouse in Pennsylvania. The warehouse took in all the stuff and then turned around and auctioned it off. They interviewed a woman who had bought a truck load at auction and was selling it on Facebook. Clearly all of the individuals were making a profit. Waste? I think not. The end consumers feel like they are getting a deal. The woman with the truck is making money. The warehouse is making money. All on stuff that was basically tossed. Sounds like many wins to me.

My nose had a lovely run this morning. It might be done. But I've got a pile - at least 10 - used tissues right here that have been my morning so far. Wonder if I own stock in Kleenex?

I have a few - really only a couple - of household chores and today is laundry day. The puzzle is getting to the end. "Your array of pieces to go in is shrinking nicely," John said yesterday. Bonny's family gave her a new puzzle "for your elbow". It's one Myrna would not like but I think it looks interesting so it's jumped to the top of the queue.

I am very grateful that I do not have to travel anywhere.

Shelf

Comments

[bill_schubert]

Saw that same story and had the same thought. The corrugated boxes also get recycled, the one kind of recycling that makes money and is successful. Creative capitalism. I had heard before about being able to buy pallets of Amazon returns not knowing what was on them. But this is the industrial scale up.

[siglinde999]

The returns and resales take care of some of the waste, but there is still a lot. Many things don’t get resold, or do get sold and then dumped anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

We have an outlet store in our town. The stock is whatever comes in on the latest pallets. Just a retired dude who bought a pallet on a whim and sold the inventory out of his garage. Now he has an actual store. I've bought two dozen wash cloths and pyrex bowls. His stock was pretty big, kitchen tables, dorm refrigerators, clothing, and lots of kitchen gadgets.