• MiltownClowns@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I worked at Goodwill sorting donations 20 years ago. This is nothing new. They price according to what they think they can get for it. And if we got in designer stuff that we thought we could make money off of, there was a Goodwill website we sold it on. This is the way it’s always been.

    • Mango@lemmy.world
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      5 minutes ago

      I worked in goodwill industries last year. They were paying disabled people subminimum, their regular people $11/hr and Todd Schrieber $200k with a $50k bonus.

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      6 hours ago

      They’re also upfront about it: Goodwill exists to give (mainly disabled) people jobs, not to sell things as cheap as possible

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        2 hours ago

        Then why does anyone donate shit to Goodwill. I thought they purposely sold things cheap so that people that needed it could afford it.

      • Baaahb@feddit.nl
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        5 hours ago

        Goodwill exists to make rich people richer. The disabled people they “exist to give jobs too” are super exploited.