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The American online commerce giant Amazon destroys millions of new items in its depots, which are not sold or returned every year. The complaint came from the show "Capital" of the M6 channel of French television, the night of the sixth (11).
In a program, a reporter from the channel shows how he managed to be hired as administrative badistant in the warehouse of one of Amazon's warehouses in downtown Saran to film the business practices. In particular, large containers for the destruction of objects of all kinds: diapers, coffee machines, TVs, toys in tanks.
The journalist, who also collected the testimonies of several former employees, reveals the clauses contained in the contracts between the Amazon platform ("market place") and third-party suppliers who host and store the products in their warehouses. In these documents, it is proposed that companies, in case of non-sale, restore or destroy their badets even if they are new, legal practice even if "revolting", denounces the reporting of the channel M6.
Thus, in Chalon-sur-Saone, one of its smaller deposits in France, 293,000 products were scrapped, almost all new, in nine months, revealed the program presented by Julien Courbet , citing union sources. If we add up all the giant's warehouses, there would potentially be about 3 million new products that would be thrown away each year, according to TV.
Amazon France explained "try to minimize the number of products returned by your customers, in their interest as in theirs". "For products that can not be resold, we work with organizations such as donations and food banks to donate to people in need," the company said.
The program also shows, via images taken by drones, the route of products thrown into incinerators or landfills, an ecological disaster denounced by the French badociation "Friends of the Earth". Last September, the badociation filed a complaint with the General Directorate of Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prosecutions (DGCCRF) to alert Amazon of "deceptive marketing practices", accused of various violations of the law , including non-compliance with the law. the recovery of electrical and electronic waste, imposed by the code of the environment.
The badociation "Friends of the Earth" explained that she was alerted by a report on the broadcast "Frontal 21" of the German TV channel ZDF, aired in June 2018 , in which Amazon officials reportedly destroyed dishwashers, washing machines) returned by customers, mostly in perfect working order or with slight defects.
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