these pictures come from this amazon site near homburg amazon packs and posts around 1000 parcels a day here most are from 3rd party vendors who appear to store their goods at the site amazon takes care of sales and shipping. economist biarne as decker has carried out extensive research of the amazon business model according to as dekker if 3rd party vendors can't sell their goods storage costs will eat up the profits but not take an idea and if an article hasn't been sold in a year then storage costs rise to 170 years per cubic metre by then it's clear the company profitable and then does a pressured tools destroying the goods and so on the tank that. amazon doesn't deny that new goods are being destroyed the company says it's a general problem in the industry but why can't the goods be donated the german retail federation says they would still have to pay sales tax and they want that to change the german government however believes the transparency law could be enough to decrease the number of brand new articles getting dumped. via one can obviously want to know exactly what measures