The Target Reject
Store: How Goodwill Cheats Customers, Donors & Employees
After learning from a
60-Minutes special which aired a few weeks ago about how
Goodwill pays some of its challenged workers as little as 22 cents an hour
while paying their CEOs six-figure salaries, I was pretty disgusted.
My anger with them goes further however. Goodwill and other thrift stores once were a
fun treasure hunt. No longer as all of
their ‘good stuff’ is skimmed off the top and sold online at higher prices for
the consumer while cheating its retail customers by offering only high priced
crap and over-priced Target Store rejects which seldom work. Even their clothing has become more expensive
than sale merchandise from Walmart.
No longer does one find antiques or collectibles at
bargain prices. If you’re lucky enough
to find something of this nature, Goodwill prices it at eBay prices (the asking
price, not what the item sold for…eBay is trying to get rid of its antiques
& collectibles category the last I heard).
Not long ago I donated a carton of old Elvis magazines
from the 60s & 70s to our local Goodwill.
Not one of them ever found their way to the retail shelves.
In the past three years I had been a generous donor,
giving away truckloads of belongings from my deceased parents and those of my
wife who both died the same year also. I
won’t be donating anything else.
This is my opinion...what are your thoughts?
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