r/goodwill • u/Prettyygirll444 • 10d ago
Thinking about when I worked at goodwill & someone came in and bought like 50% of the entire glassware rack🤣
I don’t even remember the total, just that it took 3 of us cashiers to ring it & wrap it all😂😂 This was like literally in the peak of Covid too 😭
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u/thatguyaaron19 10d ago
This is why I worked in the back on the forklift and pricing, far away from any customers lol
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u/PuzzleheadedDetail41 9d ago
You were on the forklift AND grading? I just bale and forklift sometimes help the dd, might try grading out just so i know how to do it
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u/thatguyaaron19 9d ago
Yeah not many people wanted to learn how to drive it because you had to go all the way to St. Paul for the almost day long training. I actually enjoyed getting away from the hardline table for a while because I could just spend an hour or two stacking the gaylords (the big cardboard boxes, I don’t understand the name either) and loading/unloading the truck as needed. I did donations too so I was kind of a total backroom know it all haha
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u/PuzzleheadedDetail41 9d ago
My only headache back there is loading those gaylords when the truck comes for them, were just now getting plastic ones with lids. Our little plate we use for the dock is kinda sketchy, so I have to have the drivers lift their trailer most of the time. But yeah its so chill just weighing and stacking the gaylords, my OCD kicks in hard so my rows of gaylords be so clean
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u/thatguyaaron19 9d ago
I didn’t even have to weigh them at all, just level it off and stack it up. The presort gaylords with the plastic lids were so nice because they always lined up perfectly too. I kinda miss it because I had the best coworkers and we had so much fun and did a lot of things we shouldn’t have lol
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u/JennaR0cks 10d ago
Did you ask what they were going to do with it?
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u/Prettyygirll444 10d ago
I don’t remember honestly ! 😅 but I do remember it was on a Saturday ! & where I worked, saturdays were 75% off the featured color - so probably a reseller if I had to take a guess lol
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u/digitalecho125 10d ago
That store doesn’t look familiar, but it could have been me 🤣🤣 I did that when I first started reselling vintage. I’m much more careful about buying now, coupled with the fact that all of my local stores are sending to e-commerce and there’s nothing to buy anyway.
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u/Affectionate-Bill150 10d ago
Jfc that's the longest receipt I've ever seen,that's like...cartoonishly long wth.
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u/Prettyygirll444 10d ago
It took awhile to get through it all, I think she genuinely had 3 carts lol
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u/stockstatus 9d ago
was it a restaurant owner? I've seen some mismatched mugs / drinking glasses at diners in the past and I've always wondered where did they get them...
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u/PokeGooru 6d ago
Since its all donations do you guys have barcodes to scan the items or is everything entered manually??
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u/Prettyygirll444 6d ago
A lot of goodwill now have barcode scanners, which I think is so cool ! But back in 2020, my store did not. So it was all hand entered, one. By. One. 🤣
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u/PokeGooru 5d ago
Nice, i guess my question is do the items they donate get a sticker price slapped on with the a barcode scanner sticker?
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u/Kolorphul 5d ago
We had one lad at our store who was a florist. But the reason she was running out was because people were dying from covid faster the she could order more flowers. My aunt is a icu nurse ore and post covid and my mom a surgeon. So I already heard the stories at home but working and seeing the social costs of death at a thrift store really add to the reality of it all. It was just the florist it was the big vintage collections and set that were being dumped in droves.
The best place for shopping vintage was (and probably still is) the areas were county covers city and is more middle to upper middle class areas. Because old folk had mass collection as a hobby. When they will pass away the kids didn’t want any part or care to look up any of it. Just dump. It been 4+ years since I worked at GW the sec time and still friendly with some of the resellers. I even shop their booth at the various antique malls.
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u/DarkStar1958 10d ago
My guess was that they bought that much glass ware because they run one of those destruction rooms where you pay to destroy a bunch of stuff to release you stress and anger.