What happen to returned cosmetics at drugstores?

Like Walgreens and CVS.


The manager at Walgreens told me they got thrown away. Is that true?What happen to returned cosmetics at drugstores?
One of two things happens to all the returns:





1) They are scanned for credit and then thrown away, or...


2) They are returned to a claim center and then returned to the manufacturer for credit.





(or in some states, it is donated to charity).





What credit is issued, if any, depends on the product and the manufacturer and what agreement was made with the manufacturer by the buying department.





In some cases, probably most cases, the stores/company gets full credit. For some products there is no credit because the manufacturer/distributor already made a deal with Walgreens to give Walgreens a lower price in return for foregoing any future claims.





I guess we could sum this all up by saying that the stores/company, in general, get almost full credit for everything that is returned, one way or another.What happen to returned cosmetics at drugstores?
Yeah. Unless it has no tbeen taken out of the package, it gets put in a back usually with damages and returns and sent back to corporate so they can figure out what to do with it. It ends up throw away in the end, but corporate looks at the item and learns from what was returned, etc so they can adjust what they buy next time to put in the stores. Sometimes it just gets thrown away in store...just depends on the corporate policy and the situation
Nope, not true. They actually go back to the manufacturer for credit.
I guess if they are defective why would they put them back?
yes. what else would they do with them?