Amazon liquidation stores run on a weekly waste-restock cycle that structures consumer behavior.

Evidence

On Wednesdays, an Amazon truck full of liquidated items arrives. Each truck drops between fifteen and twenty thousand items. On Thursday, the store closes for restocking. Store management discards trash and any obviously broken items. Management then performs a rough categorization and accounting of things that may deceptively appear to have been returned. (For instance, unopened Apple watches and computers are clearly the pride of the store owners, but often what appears to be a watch or computer is simply an empty box returned without the product.) On Friday, when the store once again opens, there is a long line. Camping out overnight seems to be required. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 262

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly extends ‘Grafting & Growth’ and the book’s infrastructure framework: the warehouse-as-infrastructure here takes a Wednesday-Friday waste-restock rhythm, showing the temporal structure of commodity circulation feeding the added case study of a real creator.
• QUESTION: Is the fifteen-to-twenty-thousand-item per-truck figure verified, or sourced from Nygaard’s own narration?