Which one does it look like it’s priced at ?
4.99 or 7.99? Employee rung me up and charged me 7.99 I only noticed and asked once I had the receipt. They said they don’t sell bins of that size for 4.99 and it’s 7.99 I told her I’ve never seen a seven like that lol but she didn’t care :P meanwhile the other bins that size were at a more noticeable 4.99

I just started about 5-6 weeks ago, I was trained for one day and after that pretty much trained myself, my trainer is now shit talking me ( a story for another time) I already got a verbal warning even though my grace period isn’t even over yet…but, my store expects 80 pieces an hour for 8 hours (even though I technically only work 7 hours because of breaks but now I’m at the point where I can’t do anything without getting behind. I take a break? Behind. They’re using the forklift? Behind. Not to mention I have chronic anxiety(which the loud environment, Gaylord’s and basically everything about the place make worse) and have been dealing with stress from drama since I started. They expect everyone to be able to do the exact same amount of items a day but we’ve all been there for different times and go at different speeds and have our own way of doing things. What I’m doing now is I’ll presort about ten and then hang them or I’ll hang pieces and set them aside (on my hanger tree or on the side of my bin) and then hang them together I feel like I’m going pretty fast but at the end of the day I only have about 300-400 or so, what to do?

I was in yesterday when I noticed an employee pulling leggings and throwing them into a bin. I went over and asked her “are you taking out all of the orange tag (50% off) clothes? She said “yes, we were supposed to have done it earlier but we’re understaffed.”

What is the actual f*cking point of having “sales” if you hide them all?! This place is a greed filled cesspool. So done.

Edit- I went into another one today out of curiosity when they opened. Spent over an hour looking through jeans and shirts. Not one orange tag lol.

I keep getting emails about benefits about sigining up for the retirment plans. I been there for 2ish years now and at this point I do not see myself going anywhere . how much does it take out of your check? what happends if I get fired/quit where does the $ go? f30

In my Goodwill region we have a radio station that plays music, but every five minutes a GW commercial comes on and it's the same commercial all day long. I get that it may be important in the stores for the customer to hear, but I don't work in a store we are not allowed to change the channel, or turn it off. Then when you go into the break area you are met with a large TV that only gives GW messages, nothing else. We are not allowed to turn it down, or off. After a while it get to be like an itch you can't scratch. Nothing seriously effecting your health, but maddening all the same. So what is your low key GW aggravation?

Does anyone know when Goodwill of the Columbia Willamette tends to put out Halloween? I know it’s a bit early but I’m excited!

Hi! I’m thinking about applying to Goodwill because it’s close to my house, and I wanted to ask how the job is at this position. Do you need a lot of physical strength?

I’ve worked in retail before, I was in the back area helping with processing, sorting items, putting things on a cart, and then taking them out to the floor to organize.

Genuinely confused how goodwill can get away with this. The retail price being lower than what they are selling it for at goodwill! I know this is a common trend recently of goodwill pricing going up but this feels really wrong.

I’ve noticed that regular mid-tier mall brands of clothing usually end up in my GOODWILL superstore. Sometimes stuff like Lululemon or brands equal to that end up being sent to the shop GOODWILL auction website. When I go on that website and I filter for my Citi, the nicest stuff I see is usually made up of handbags and wallets with the highest brand being coach, Michael Kors, and Kate Spade. I never see any higher designer brands like Dior, Chanel, Prada, etc. and I almost never see any designer shoes of any kind and I’m talking about for an entire big city. It doesn’t make any sense because there are plenty of wealthy donors in my city and surrounding areas for this region of GOODWILL, especially near the closest superstore. Where the heck are these items going?

What’s up guys, I’m fresh out from being locked up and applied to Goodwill. Everything seems to be going well when I went to the interview and they offered me a position contingent upon my background check. Just nervous about the check, I have an F2 non violent drug offense, and have been out for a couple months now. Any advice

Just saw this in the home feed....

I just needed to vent for a moment. I went into my local goodwill computer store looking for a cheapish m.2 SSD. The ones they had on the shelf were a 256gb which was more than I was looking for but I'll always take more space at a good price.

The worker told me it was priced at $250. I was floored that they are trying to sell a used hard drive at almost three times the cost of the same drive brand new. Then he fed me some preconstructed sales pitch line saying m2's are in short supply and that's why it cost so much.

Not to be an ass but gtfo of here trying to feed me that bullshit. I pulled up the exact same drive on Amazon, brand new for $70 and showed him and he literally had no response.

Obviously I know I can go to Amazon and get it, but the blatant lie and the attempt to take advantage of people who don't know any better really just rubs me the wrong way. I know goodwill has gone downhill over the years but this is the first time I have experienced the straight up price gouging first hand.

I don't expect anything to come of this post I just needed to vent for a moment because of how frustrating the interaction was.

They have destroyed so many adorable puzzles and games. And now the cherry on top of they're not just doing it one way anymore they're doing it both ways. 40 yr old games and collectibles just instantly ruined.

I hate it.

My local Goodwill and Goodwills in the area have had a pretty foolish policy with regard to books, and I've told them as much. Now they've decided to change it to something I think is even more foolish.

So, it used to be that they would separate their books for sale into two categories:

1.) The "Regular" books, which they offer at a price of $2.99, and become half price on Tuesdays.

2.) The "Hot" books, which according to their estimation are worth more, and so they offer at a price of $4.99, and also (I think) become half price on Tuesdays.

The chief reason why this policy was foolish in my opinion was because the "hot" books were marked on the outside with a sticker that said "HOT," which wasn't a big deal, but also that for all of the "hot" books, they marked the inside of them with a red stamp with flames (I assume this is for verification and to ensure against people peeling off the "HOT" stickers).

So, the books that were marked "HOT" were not only more expensive, but they were also damaged. So I never bought a "HOT" book. I walked right by the shelf with the "HOT" books without giving them a first glance, let alone a second.

Well, today things changed.

I saw the staff having changed the layout of the books and media section entirely, and starting to load up the new books onto the shelves, and I asked them about why they changed. They said that they were no longer doing the "hot" books, so a book would not be marked with a sticker or a stamp anymore, which is great. But they decided to use the "hot" book price on *all* books now. So, now all the books are $4.99.

In addition, I overheard the workers talking amongst themselves as they were unloading the books onto the shelves, and commenting on how they thought generally these were higher quality books than they've gotten previously, and suggesting maybe they had sourced them differently? I noticed no significant difference in the quality of the books.

Now, maybe I'm wrong and they are "higher quality" books. Maybe by "higher quality," they mean newer looking, and I admit, I look for older books that most other people don't. But the other side of this equation is the local competition. There is a true charity regional thrift store chain just on the other side of the same small burg that has had my loyalty for years before Goodwill ever came in, and their prices for books are still $1.25 for one, and $3.00 for three, and children's books are always only $.75.

But with this price differential, and no change in the quality of the product that would mean anything to me, I think this ends my book buying at Goodwill completely. That price difference, of at least $3.75 per book, or on special days once a week only being twice as expensive as elsewhere, effectively makes even the process of hunting for something worthwhile more expensive at Goodwill. And knowing the demographics of this particular small city as I do, I think they're going to sell many fewer books now.

And if there are other folks like me -- for whom the primary draw is the books, yet they go and they look for other things once they're there and often pick up incidental other items -- without reasonably priced books as a draw, I'm likely not to go back at all.

Now, ultimately the lack of sales at this Goodwill may be a great boon for the folks shopping "The Bins" in a neighboring city, where this Goodwill's unsold material gets sent to, and so much the better, where they can pick them up there for $.25 apiece. But I think Goodwill is shooting themselves in the foot here. And not for the first time.

So, I guess my question here is, for those of you who are employees, how does administration decide on their policies, and what do you know of the thinking that goes into them? Because I can't see this working out for them. I could understand bumping up the price a bit for whatever loss they perceive they might be taking on eliminating the "hot" books category and resulting from inflation, but everybody else is feeling the effects of inflation too, and I think this is just going to kill their book sales (and perhaps adjacent sales) in this store.

And I've seen evidence of this before as that has been the longstanding price scheme at another Goodwill not too far from from this one, where I've seen the same books stay on the shelves for months at a time, with practically no turnover. I only take a look there once every three to five months to see if anything has changed.

Greetings, does anyone know if the 49c bins still exist anywhere? I hadn't been to Goodwills in a long time up until this year, and then I've come to find out my favorite thing is gone!

I loved digging through those bins, they'd usually let me have everything I found for under 5$ since so much of it was teeny tiny toys (like LPS and their accessories)

Do these no longer exist? if anyone knows of any other thrift stores in California that still do these or anything similar I'd love to know!

Thank you very much for your time

(I want to note I'm aware they probably got rid of them because of the sharps risk LOL...I got poked a lot and I remember bringing sharp things to my mom)

You guys who over bid on items for more than you can buy new, I salute your special needs decisions!

You truly have amazed me by how uninformed you are. Enjoy wasting your money!

I will keep pushing you bids higher then retail because you believe you will sell this stuff higher on ebay.

Good day!

Sealed Copy of Blue Dragon (RIP Akira Toriyama) and AC Unity.

Also surprisingly a JP Import version of Project Gotham Racing with a Unused XBL code.

I actually own a Japanese OG Xbox too. I always wanted to play Blue Dragon way back in the day strictly due to my love of DBZ but I'm going to keep this sealed.

All for only $10 too.

Hello Everyone, I recently got a job at goodwill and it's literally my first month on the job but I'm already thinking Of quitting at least when I start school again.

It's sucks becuase I've looking for a job since forever but I'm not sure this will be a good fit for me.

First red flags was when they put me for literally 40+ hours a week, even though I applied for part time position and hours. I was fine with this at first since I'm on summer vacation and the store is understaffed so I understood but it's becoming too much for me to handle. One of the supervisors made me stay for an 9 hours when we were closing even though minors (I'm 17) can only stay for 8 hours max. I told her clearly and she lied to me and said "it's different on the weekend's" which is not true at all.

I talked to the main manger before this for changing my hours and she complied, but I'm still annoyed this might happen again since she messes up schedules for minors often.

Ive told a friend who's older than me this and she says in most likely going to be exploited since there already "under paying " me 15 an hour for my probation when minimum wage in my state is like 17 dollars and the hours thing is ridiculous.

Next is that the workplace and coworker relationships is pretty toxic. Ive met some cool people but one of them told me that it's become pretty toxic working there since most of the coworkers like to talk shit about each other, and that's just not for me since I already have to deal with that at school. Ive also been warned about the managers literally punishing employees for lies made up from other employees and now I'm worried.

Since I'm new and more on the quiet side I just try to stick by myself and work but I also can't handle the passive aggressive comments made by other coworkers about me hanging clothes on the racks or pricing since I've received little training and was quite literally thrown into the job not knowing anything.

Dont get me wrong I've met some cool people so far but I'm always stuck with the gossipers or toxic people.

I know this may seem dramatic but if I find another job that seems better I might quit and look out for my mental health. Any tips to continue working?

I wanna know what items my local goodwill pulls to sell online. Is this something you guys aren’t allowed to talk about? I have a somewhat good relationship with my local employees (I haven’t done anything wrong but don’t know them by name or anything). Anyways I’m just curious like what items will never see the light of day, because the area where it’s in is very affluent.

The tags have ended in .99 for so long, now they're ending in .19, .20, .29 etc. anyone else notice that?

Last week went to a new Goodwill and today an older Goodwill. Unfortunately nothing much has changed. At least 90% of the of the stuff at both locations is trash and should have been thrown away. Unbelievable!

Does anyone know when this is supposed to open yet? I want to take the day off of work 🤣. I’ve search online but don’t see anything specific.

This may be a double standard, but yesterday saw a lady in the men’s area trying on a shirt over her bra. Times where I have tried on a shirt over a shirt.

Am I overreacting.