It's important to have the article properly framed, though. If you didn't organize and get rid of (sell or toss) unused things at your place, you're eventually going to end up under piles of garbage nobody wants unless you somehow anticipated all your own needs perfectly.

At some point you buy something you thought you'd need that you didn't. The same goes with businesses trying to sell. The difference from cleaning up your software project is that getting rid of physical product is not just deleting a few lines of code. It has to go somewhere.

I don't think he is making that argument -- which is why he prefaced it with "This is not ideal" -- just setting context,

Is it a different industry? Any customer-focused retail that readily accepts returns will inevitably have returned items that are difficult to resell.