Slashed For Clearance

While restaurants and grocery markets are regularly chucking away perfectly good eats, food pantries are begging for donations finding their need now bigger than ever before, and soup kitchens are at capacity turning away for lack of food many of the hungry. And all this while those trash bins sit filled with absolutely okay grub.

Department stores are just as inglorious, casting off their unsold and still new shoes, coats and other clothes while the homeless people are sleeping cold on the same sidewalks just on down the road. And in the most recent for-now-in-the-news-anyway example of bad made even worse, H&M dutifully slashing them up before hauling them off to be dumped guaranteeing their unusableness to any destitute who might come snooping along; Walmart to that same end with each piece of clothing being hole-punched through by machine.

I'm not so thick in the head as to think that this sort of wrongfulness is uncommon at all. Nevertheless it is notable and worth pointing out when from time to time certain examples like the latest H&M and Walmart atrociousness gets found out and makes headlines. Everyone justifiably tsk-tsking now but for how long, who knows? Call me cynical, but I'm guessing that this too shall soon pass, falling beneath our indignation radar just another ignored blip.

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