In addition, Bevin pardoned a man who was sentenced last year to 23 years in prison for raping a 9-year-old child, as well as a woman who was sentenced to life in prison for murder after giving birth in a flea market outhouse in 2003 after discarding the newborn. Bevin also released a man who had been in jail since 2003 for killing his parents and leaving their bodies in a basement when he was 16 years old, a man who hired a hit man to kill his business partner in 1991, and a man who had been on death row for a triple murder in 1983.
Ordering stuff online knowing you’re going to return one of them, or returning things online a lot, is a different story imo.
It just feels very wasteful.
Just like when I ordered a bunch of Arrowhead sparkling water on Amazon because it disappeared from local stores. It came in 7 giant boxes, each with 32 16 oz bottles. So much waste. Also Arrowhead is depleting the CA water table anyway. So I should have just gone without.
My wife recently learned (and then told me) about how many returns end up in the trash. Now she basically won’t return anything. Shirt doesn’t really fit? Well…better to wear an ill fitting shirt than throw it in the trash. She’s not wrong. But this kinda stuff is what makes modern living so tough. So much less blissful ignorance.
In a store? That’s fine, as far as I know. It will get refolded and put back on the shelf. But doesn’t it feel kinda gross to order three sizes of pants to try on knowing that the two you return will go to the landfill?
And on the other end of the spectrum is Dell - which wanted a 25% restocking fee (like $600) for a crappy laptop they sold me that was way too big. I didn’t even think to check their return policy because I figured Dell’s whole shtick as a mail-order computer company must be if you don’t like it you can return it. Nope - they’d rather just collect the 25% and lose a customer for life.
Luckily the fan made noise and I was able to navigate a path with customer service to avoid the restocking fee.
FWIW - I actually do order a fair number of shirts online - since I like certain t-shirts and work shirts that are hard to find. But holy cow is buying XL - XXL a crap shoot. Sometimes 3XL is like fat guy in a little coat too small, and sometimes I’m swimming in XXL.
Sometimes a t-shirt from the same company ordered 6 months later is sized completely differently.
Somehow I have old REI XXLs and even XLs that fit just fine. But there are literally no shirts at REI that fit me right now. XXL is comically too small.
A lot of other stores are the same. XXL has turned into XL, and they don’t carry 3XL. Gotta save money on fabric I guess. Only high quality places like Nordstrom or Orvis seem to still be correctly sizing XXL. And then w/o fail I immediately stain my $110 polo or short sleeve button down work shirt.
