Closing Bridal Store, Priscilla of Boston, Spray Paints Designer Gowns and Outrages Women

I've never shopped at David's Bridals even for other people's weddings or special events... this just confirms my hesitance. I have always tried to support small business owners with as much of my required purchases and will continue to do so. Consistently using my purchasing power in a concious manner is probably the most direct way to effect change.

Seems to me the larger the corporation, the more their policies are geared to instigated more consumption at rates they've deemed as within what the general public can absorb.

If the chain isn’t doing well, why not have a going out of business sale and sell the sample gowns even in poor condition? I’m sure they could have used the money a sale like this would generate to pay bills.

Okay you guys. Maybe they have every "right" to destroy their dresses because it's their own property. But if Americans want to bully corporations into being charitable with bad PR, I'm not crying any tears. Corporations as a rule will act solely in self interest unless there is a public outcry. If only someone could shine the light on the countless shady business practices that are much worse than destroying wedding dresses. Oh yeah, and if individuals could live up to their own standards of kindness they expect from others, that would help too.

Do you know what amount of food is thrown in Vegas from the casino’s buffets and restaurants every day? They don’t allow the workers to take or to eat anything.

It is kind of stupid to pay so much for a wedding dress anyway. Maybe that is why they went out of business? Think of all the money that is wasted on weddings that could have been used by the couple to buy a house or start a savings account.

If someone buys the dress from the shop, wouldn't the design "get out", anyway? What a pathetic excuse on the shop's part!!

if the dresses are destroyed and thrown away they can write off the full value of the gowns as loses on their taxes.

I know why companies do this....... they are compensated by the manufacturer or can write it off on their taxes ( or bankruptcy )...... but only if they don't sell the item. I worked for a retail company and we had to do the same thing with books ( cut the cover off and run a blade through the entire book ), software ( we had to destroy all CD's and DVD's ) and food ( we had to throw out of date, but still edible food away in a locked bin so people couldn't steal it ). If you guarantee that you will " destroy " these items, you can be compensated, but if you don't and you sell them or donate them..... then you don't get any compensation and it shows as a loss. I did not like doing this, but it's a financial thing and I don't own the company. And I think people crying about it..... are just looking to get something for free. Typical
I'm more upset about destroying books, software and food..... than I am about some stupid dresses.

I was a bagger at Albertsons in high school and at the end of the day, the deli would throw away a huge garbage bag full of completely fine rotisserie chicken. I asked one of the deli people why it wasn't donated and he said, "it was against corporate policy." hello, there are starving people on the streets! corporate greed

it was their crap. they could do what they wanted with it. and god forbid somebody not get something for nothing.

At the end of the day, it is their merchandise, and they can do whatever they want with it. A lot of celebrities spend needlessly, when they could help others. There isn't a law stating that one cannot be greedy, wasteful, and selfish with their money and possessions. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people in the world that only care about themselves, and not their fellow man.

People are whining about the STORE being thoughtless and wasteful? What about the people who buy these ridiculously overpriced monstrosities?

curious do brides donate there dresses after the wedding or do they put them away never to be worn again ,

Another corporate success story!

If people woun't support the store enough to keep it open why should the store donate stuff to the same ones that didn't help keep them open. People support local stores.

Someone pointed this out and i will say it too, if everyone is so concerned about donating wedding dresses to the less fortunate, then why didn't you buy those dresses from the store and then donate them to worthy charities? Then you would help the bridal shop make money which would help pay employees and help the economy. Then once you buy the drees you donate it. I mean since everyone feels, the shop should have donated THEIR property, why not make it your property so you can donate it since if you feel that is the right thing to do?

My third or fourth day in Saigon, a fellow I knew from language school and I had to "dx" some old fatigues. We were given razor blades to rip up fatigues that the old guys had turned in because they were too frayed. Someone told us that we couldn't just throw them out the way they were because Vietnamese, friend or foe, might be able to use them. Ripping them up made them unusable. After we finished, we took these and other items to a dump outside the city. There was a young Vietnamese officer there with some civilians going through the trash to see if there was anything useful. They were happy to take what we were throwing away, even though we had torn them up. Neat, huh?

It was theirs to begin with, if they wanted to use them as toilet paper, burn them or whatever, they have every right to do so. The people b!tchin' about it aren't entitled to these dresses no more than anyone else is. It's their loss, not yours, so get over it...

Boy its sad that this is even a headline. We dont have anything important to write about?

I used to work at the landfill and sears and pennys would both slash and dump paint on unsold merchandise. When I asked why they did that instead of donating it they said people got smart about "returning" it to other stores for cash or exchange. Some always ruin it for all.