Clothes Discarded by H&M in Manhattan Are First Rendered Useless To The Poor
This is common practice for large retailers. When I was a (poor) child one of my early defining memories is of my mother attempting to retrieve a perfectly good discarded Big Wheel knock-off toy from a dumpster behind a large department store for her boys to play with, and being physically threatened, demeaned and chased off by an irate store manager, who then smashed the toy with a hammer in front of us.
Later, when I was a teen, every retail store I worked for had similar policies. Sad to see nothing’s changing.