What really happens to those online buys you return

The inconvenient truth about the convenience of shopping online is that consumers have been trained to partake in a practice that is incredibly wasteful and harmful to the environment.

Amanda Mull

Nov 5, 2021 – 10.01am

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Consider the dressing room. The concept began its mass-market life as an amenity in Gilded Age department stores, a commercial sanctuary of pedestals and upholstered furniture on which to swoon over the splendid future of your wardrobe.

Now, unless you’re rich enough to sip gratis champagne in the apartment-size private shopping suites of European luxury brands, the dressing room you know bears little resemblance to its luxe progenitors.

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