Behind the scenes: The life of your Goodwill donation

It’s that time of year when many people are spring cleaning and finding themselves with extra things around the house.

[jjackomin]

Don't donate to Goodwill. They pay their employees virtually nothing while the CEO makes over $500, 000 a year.

[katiefoote]

This clip doesn't show everything that happens to the donations. At the store I worked at about 60-70% of the cloths on the sale floor get discarded every week because its only allowed to be out for sale for 5 weeks, that's thousands of pieces a week and the priced do not go down the longer there are on the floor only the boutique items get reduced. The clips also does not how much of the donations never get to the sales floor. My boss had me get rid of jeans that still has the tag on them, never worn.

[caribbaviator]

Anything that doesn't sell at my Goodwill gets bailed don't don't know about the others but seriously screw this pathetic company

[randyklein]

Goodwill used to have a job training program for adults with disabilities but they got rid of it but has anybody talked about that once in

[TheBambislayer]

Free Goods received and sold at more then Walmart prices

[sarahsimpkins]

I believe goodwill be getting some good item in but the good items be going to the employees they be picking over it.
I know because my son father use to work at goodwill years ago.
He use to bring the items home.

[tusk]

Many of us grew up thinking Goodwill was to help those who could not afford store bought items, would still be able to find clothes, so we could still fit in, and not being constantly wearing worn out, out of style hand-me- downs.. Or if we need to wear something more presentable at a concert. Shoes, I grew up with my toes always ending up squished entering a new school year. Many kids who's dad's were deployed to Viet Nam, did not have clothes to wear everyday. Goodwill had became Expensive to buy now. SHAME ON THEM. I seen items that were from Dollar Tree, and Dollar General, USED, and the were changing more than even the Store Prices.

[taytayshaniqua.]

What i hate is when people donate dirty clothes and it destroys the new ones

[profitsoverpeople]

I'm going to start a donation collection and then sell them free inventory

[julieschwartz]

What they are showing is so wrong. Most Goodwills are instructed to send everything to their area corporate location where they have “experts”, and then they list anything worth having on the Goodwill shopping website. Most of the things in the store are damaged and overpriced.

[Aliciaek]

What do they do with brand name clothes? Where do they sell the best products?

[dougclem]

The stores mixed female and male clothing on the same rack. So you must dig through girls clothes to find boys clothes. Men had a separate section, toys were with girls clothes to help mom and kids. Going to Good will is even more frustrating, i started going to THE METHODIST WOMENS STORE.

[savvycrafter]

And they bundle it up and send it to a third world country and sell it there.

[dianacantrell]

Goodwill No good everything is so expensive
owner make 2, 000, 000 a year
Employees make nothing is so sad

[luiszena]

Its sad because I know people that work at those store. They take expensive thing home . And put the other out on the floor . I hope I didn't offended anyone not all workers do that but alot do. GOD BLESS

[savvycrafter]

But don’t get caught taking anything out of the trash they throw out

[amihandecastro]

People always have bad comments to say. If you can't afford, buy there. If you can afford, buy somewhere else. I believe this store helps a lot of people. It's a thrift store, manage your expectations. Don't be too entitled.

[brendaechols]

Jessica looks like the only one happy working there.

[PraveenSrJ]

It is very easy to get sick 🤢 if you don’t wear a proper face covering and gloves.

[joseescobedo]

Good bins are dangerous with everything like that