The Big Issue

‘Don’t blame our consumerist society, it’s our consumerist economy at fault’

Last month, on the eve of Amazon’s own Prime Day shopping event, ITV dropped a big bomb – smoking-gun evidence of the online retailer’s long-time practice of destroying returned products or those that don’t sell fast enough.

This story went viral, with the whistle-blower’s video footage from the warehouse, their personal testimony on camera, and the hard data, revealing the shocking extent of

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