Corporate Irresponsibility

     H&M is one of my favorite places to shop, not only because of their decent prices but because of their variety of styles and quality of products. In an article that the New York Times published on January 6th, 2010 Jim Dwyer wrote about how socially irresponsible the H&M store located at the heart of Herald Square in New York City is about discarding their unsold cloths. The ethical thing to do with cloths that can't be sold anymore is to give them away to charity or any form of recycling is better  than throwing them out on the street so garbage collectors can take them to landfills without serving their only purpose, to be worn. Not only throwing them out but also cutting them so that they are completely unwearable illustrates a lack of ethics from the management of that certain store because he should be in control of the way their employees discard these cloths that have never been worn before. Throwing away NEW cloths is very bad because not only do these cloths could've been used by someone who needed them, they'll also end up in a landfill somewhere. (you can see the article at:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/nyregion/06about.html?_r=1
      H&M has an executive in charge of corporate responsibility, Ingrid Schullstrum. It should be her job to appoint someone in each store to dispose of unworn material in a proper way. I shop at this store on the regular bases and as customer I was disappointed by the behavior of the store, it makes the whole chain look bad. In a fallow up article the retail sore promised to donate their unwanted cloths to charity but is a real shame that they only did that after they were under the public eye,( Fallow up article:http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/hm-says-it-will-stop-destroying-unworn-clothing/)