I went to Lowes today to pick up a grate to fit our new kitchen sink bowl bottom, which I found out they don't stock. I looked for the display sink model to get the model number, and it was gone!
So, I asked a sales rep where the heck it was, and he said that particular model was discontinued and all those sinks were trashed. I remember we had a thread here about tools that got trashed that were floor models or discontinued, but sinks??
He said that the MFG requires the sinks to be removed from the store and crushed. Now with sinks that cost over $250 it seem illogical to trash them. The store could use them as a givaway for a type of other purchase, like cabinets, or even have a parking lot sale, or donate to charity, like Habitat For Humanity, just to redeem something, but to trash them? What could be the reasoning behind this?
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So, I asked a sales rep where the heck it was, and he said that particular model was discontinued and all those sinks were trashed. I remember we had a thread here about tools that got trashed that were floor models or discontinued, but sinks??
He said that the MFG requires the sinks to be removed from the store and crushed. Now with sinks that cost over $250 it seem illogical to trash them. The store could use them as a givaway for a type of other purchase, like cabinets, or even have a parking lot sale, or donate to charity, like Habitat For Humanity, just to redeem something, but to trash them? What could be the reasoning behind this?
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