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What a great outcome.
Over the last 10 years or so, the Goodwill in my town has gone from a real thrift store to a head-scratcher. Items are typically priced over new retail. Sometimes its ridiculous. Even used Classico spaghetti sauce jars are $1.99 each. ??? New jars filled with delicious sauce are $1.59 at the grocery store. The overpricing can be frustrating because I occasionally find something of interest only to see it priced at some ludicrous level where even if I complained and they dropped the price (which they don't as a policy) it would still be overpriced.
I only still go there because there's one person in the back room who has a decent sense of pricing and their stuff occasionally gets out on the floor. But its just one person, and they must work very part time.
I once showed a dirty, scratched up electrical junction box (with the original retail price tag still attached) to the the manager. Brand new retail price with warranty: $8.99, heavily used goodwill price: $29.99. I didn't get an answer for the discrepancy, she just politely took the item into the backroom for "reassessment" and that's it. I'm left standing there and wondering. I find a lot of similarly overpriced things but usually I just leave them and wonder where they go because I often don't see them on my next visit. I suspect our Goodwill is gouging a lot of people.....unwittingly?
The other thrift stores in town are completely normal. Whew. And the employees are pleasant too.
Over the last 10 years or so, the Goodwill in my town has gone from a real thrift store to a head-scratcher. Items are typically priced over new retail. Sometimes its ridiculous. Even used Classico spaghetti sauce jars are $1.99 each. ??? New jars filled with delicious sauce are $1.59 at the grocery store. The overpricing can be frustrating because I occasionally find something of interest only to see it priced at some ludicrous level where even if I complained and they dropped the price (which they don't as a policy) it would still be overpriced.
I only still go there because there's one person in the back room who has a decent sense of pricing and their stuff occasionally gets out on the floor. But its just one person, and they must work very part time.
I once showed a dirty, scratched up electrical junction box (with the original retail price tag still attached) to the the manager. Brand new retail price with warranty: $8.99, heavily used goodwill price: $29.99. I didn't get an answer for the discrepancy, she just politely took the item into the backroom for "reassessment" and that's it. I'm left standing there and wondering. I find a lot of similarly overpriced things but usually I just leave them and wonder where they go because I often don't see them on my next visit. I suspect our Goodwill is gouging a lot of people.....unwittingly?
The other thrift stores in town are completely normal. Whew. And the employees are pleasant too.
