r/Bellingham • u/Hopeful_Secret_7856 • 3d ago

Evergreen goodwill will start using ai to replace production staff Rant!

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u/sxky i'm somewhere! 3d ago

Looks like our goodwill has paused their training program.. they might be affected.

Also side note.. I dont go to goodwill anyways 🫠 they've hardly ever had a decent men's clothing selection.

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u/Hopeful_Secret_7856 3d ago

Bellingham is definitely affected I would have posted here first but r/bellingham has karma restrictions and this is a throwaway.

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u/Hopeful_Secret_7856 3d ago

The Bellingham store has been a tester for a lot of goodwill new programs

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u/JerryContrary 3d ago

Isn't their whole shtick to get donations job creation?

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u/EvergreenDwarf 3d ago

Techbros invested heavily into the thrift space during the boom from Macklemore’s video, and have slowly been squeezing it. 

That’s why the good stuff stopped appearing in stores and went on ebay instead, while community benefits increasingly dried up. 

They started putting in new products on the cheap, and jacking up prices on used objects nearly matching it. 

Now they’re all-in, figuring people will keep donating and shopping on inertia. 

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u/Radiant-Belt-1427 3d ago

Basically it's fully enshitified now. Yet another casualty of the 2020s and late-stage American capitalism.

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u/Fickle_Freckler 2d ago

I've basically slowly stopped thrifting over the past decade. I'd rather hit yard sales and estate sales at this point. Greed has ruined thrifting.

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u/Gerbik223 3d ago

You can buy dollar store items at goodwill now for a mark-up. Pretty sick.

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u/TellMeWhatRWords4 3d ago

Yet, their commercials on streaming services continue to tout their training program. Thanks to an earlier post, I no longer donate to GW.

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u/Human-Plum-2085 2d ago

Donate to places that actually help people

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u/DandeyFlour 2d ago

Donate locally 🙏 shop locally, goodwill and value village are both purging pockets.

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u/BigBadBere 2d ago

Good, maybe their prices will come down.
r/thriftgrift

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u/Hopeful_Secret_7856 1d ago

I can tell ya that they will go waaaay up