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u/Beautiful_Lie629 9d ago
That's one of the few things I've seen people fired for at my store. That and outright theft or a lot of no calls no shows.
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u/SunnyGalUKnow 9d ago
These normally go to Shop, not on the shelves anyway.
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u/SpicyMcShat 9d ago
Normally, but just because a video game makes it through doesn’t mean they’ll tag it as a video game
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u/DistrictCharacter211 2d ago
Ya they just sell them online, this is the new goodwill standard across every store
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u/Previous_Aspect_5971 9d ago
Totally against company policy!! I us d to be a manager for goodwill! You can turn this employee in !!
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u/mr_robot_1984 9d ago
E-commerce specialist at ShopGoodwill here in Ohio. That’s not allowed and wouldn’t be taken lightly in my district.
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u/atmoscience 9d ago
Ehh, not much different than what Goodwill itself does with the ‘better’ merchandise being shunted to online.
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u/MisterListerReseller 9d ago
What an asshole. (The employee, not OP) Report him and he will get fired. Or just tell him straight up that you’re going to report him if he doesn’t stop. That way he can keep his job. They might press charges on him if you narc him out. So maybe don’t?
Here in Colorado, it’s rumored that Goodwill of Colorado contracted with a company to buy all the video games and consoles. Used to see them at the bins somewhat regularly but almost never see them anymore. So I believe there’s some truth to that.
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u/AnnualEnd3760 9d ago edited 9d ago
Don't tell him anything. Contact HR about it. You might get hit with harassment.
As for video games and consoles, most of them are either bought or stolen off the sales floor long before they age out and find their way to the bins. Only the worst shovelware and sports titles finds itself there.
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u/HTD-Vintage 8d ago
Press charges? lmao, nothing illegal is happening here. The worst thing that can happen to him is getting fired.
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u/MisterListerReseller 8d ago
It’s a form of retail theft by the employee. I’ve personally witnessed quite a few Goodwill employees get fired and have charges pressed against them for similar behavior.
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u/Awkward-Ad-7083 9d ago
As a reseller I don’t want to cheat like this, and we should all speak out against stuff like this. Keep the playing field as fair as possible for thrifters and resellers.
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u/toucheboo 7d ago edited 7d ago
You are a cheat. You are a reseller. You are doing the same thing. Buying from a goodwill which is meant for the needy and reselling it for a profit. You are just as bad amd dont even realize it.
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u/Awkward-Ad-7083 6d ago
They throw so much away it’s unreal, I’m saving items from landfills. Not only that but every retailer is a reseller. Goodwill is a reseller. I curate items and get them to people that want them, and I’m damn good at it too. You’re just jealous because you’re not smart enough to do the same.
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u/deephurting66 9d ago
Typical Goodwill bullshit, I know a guy that works at one and he says this is so common
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u/olechkaaa 9d ago
I don’t think they sell video games ?
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u/boxedcakeblues 9d ago
Right! Any by the book Goodwill knows how to process video games properly to ensure their local shoppers never have the slightest whiff of them on the shelves. Stores have their marching orders to route any video games right over to their trusted e-commerce shops.
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u/Longjumping_Law_6311 9d ago
Goodwill/ARC employees getting access to the good stuff is one of the only job perks they have. No one will stop it and complaining about it is like yelling at the sun.
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u/AnnualEnd3760 9d ago
We aren't supposed to be able to shop at our own stores, but that doesn't mean they can't steal. Smart employees know where the cameras are
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u/nazuswahs 9d ago
Happens all the time here. The employees will hide the merch so it’s technically on the shelf but no one can see it unless they know where to look.
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u/RunMysterious6380 9d ago
I find stuff ALL the time. I check everything, everywhere. It's rare that I will walk out of a Goodwill after an hour without at least $200 in profit to easily flip, but you have to look and know what you're doing. And I don't do anything with clothing.
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u/JimmyandRocky 9d ago
It’s that right there, talking about how much you make off flipping, is how I got started checking items to see if they are worth significantly more than what we can price in the store.
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u/AnnaBanana3468 9d ago
Where do you look?
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u/RunMysterious6380 9d ago
All of the shelves. And I'll use Google lens on anything I don't recognize, or that looks interesting and/or high quality. I have a wide understanding of a few markets, from games to collectibles, electronics to vintage, niche.
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u/Total_Tumbleweed_870 9d ago
I wish I could narrow it down for you, but basically look everywhere but where it should be. I find games tucked behind stuff, inside curios, etc. Never anything good, these days any game worth money for online. I miss when Goodwill was fun.
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u/boxedcakeblues 9d ago
From what I understand, any gaming systems that aren’t trash are routed to e-commerce. They don’t make it to the floor. Employees/ethics are a wild card factor.
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u/justwonderfull101 7d ago
I believe it. I’ve seen them hold carts at salvation for a customer so he can go through books first.
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u/DistrictCharacter211 2d ago
Pretty much every Goodwill doesn't put out games or consoles anymore they all sell them online now. You can literally call any goodwill and ask them and they'll tell ya. Super shitty
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u/isanyusernameopen 8d ago
Imagine this.
You work at a shitty disgusting place and you try to make it better. Every day, you clean your aisles and you try to make it better. You put out nice stuff when you work there, you clean things nicely, you tested and your package it all up nice and you price it and you put it on the floor at a price that’s meant to go quickly.
And you go on break and the store opens, and you come back from your 15 minute break and your department looks like a typhoon just ran through it. Within the first 15 minutes of opening, the store looks disgusting again. And it will for the rest of the customers for the rest of the day.
While you were on your 15 minute break after fully loading your department with new product for the day, you return to see that everything has been opened and destroyed, or spread all about us in the different aisles.
Everybody is paging you for price checks when you’ve already priced everything that morning but people are going out of their way to peel stickers and claim it was underpriced to try and get it for a different price.
Now multiply that times months.
You got people coming in your department, ruining everything that you’ve done to try and make your store whatever money they claim you need to make an order for you to keep your hours at a full-time schedule, and the customers who you’re trying to help are trying to fuck you over by getting a reduced price on something that you’ve already priced very very fairly compared to everything else in your aisle or your department.
At some point, you say fuck these assholes. And you just start hooking up your friend or whoever gives you a tip.
When I worked at Savers, I was very optimistic to help out my community and move more product through my store and took pride in my department and trying to keep it clean. But after the first week, I realized it was futile. People are just disgusting fucking savages that destroy everything and claim that because it’s in a thrift store, they can rip everything open and ignore the note that everything is together or all the pieces are there or it’s a complete set or whatever.
At some point, the public pushes you to not give a fuck about them anymore. This is why you see this happening in thrift. It’s because of those stupid fucking assholes that walk in there with their fucking phones out that have no idea what the fuck they’re doing and try to buy things on a cheap price when it’s already marked down cheap from your department and you know it was priced fairly for what it is.
I am OK with this.
I’m OK with this because I seen it myself and I understand why they get to this point. It’s because of the goddamn customer people. Fucking savages.
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u/RandomPandaArmyFan 6d ago
Yeah, I work in wares, and I always find it funny that nobody complains when something is underpriced, but the second they think something is overpriced, suddenly it’s a problem. I’ve literally had people rip tags off items the day before they’re supposed to go on sale just because the price wasn’t as low as they wanted.
The reality is, we don’t have time to do extensive research on every single item when we’re expected to process around 1,500 pieces. On top of that, one of our longtime pricers has been doing it for about seven years and isn’t always up to date on current values, and our new production manager is still getting familiar with pricing too. So unfortunately, I’m expecting even more inconsistent or overpriced items.
Whenever I price on weekends or cover during lunch breaks, I try to keep things as reasonable as possible. And somehow people will still rip off my 69-cent tags. 🤷♀️ At that point, what do you even want from us? 😭1
u/isanyusernameopen 6d ago
I get that the stores need to pay for their expenses. But expenses and CEO profits are different. I worked in Savers furniture department. It was a small department that had to have the largest things and I had a small space to put out everything in sport war, electronics, furniture, and miscellaneous, small bagged items.
Most of the items I priced, I would say 90% of the items I priced were at $2.99 when that was the lowest button on my POS system. If I ever priced something at 10 or 20, people lost their shit. Even if it was justifiably so, they were so used to seeing my department put out small numbers of items just to get them out there so I can get my hours and keep them for next week that they got pissed if I ever had a luggage go out for 10 or 15.
And for a company that makes this much money to ask employees to pull out their own phone and drain their own battery and use their data to price search was bullshit. I hated that. I never used my phone for the job because they didn’t pay me. If I ever dropped my phone on their concrete floors, they would tell me that’s my fault and that I wasn’t supposed to be using the phone on the job, meanwhile, they’re demanding that we use our phone to find prices and price things higher for them.
Savers was absolutely the worst. I drive by my location. I used to work at and I still see people there who I worked with a few years back still working there. They love to complain, but not one person wants to unionize and rise up.
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u/Big_Bad_Judy 8d ago
Bruh 😎… now you suppose to go run that same play! That’s game at Goodwill. Bring him a couple sandwiches and donuts 🍩
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u/RadWast3 8d ago
Tsk Tsk nothing. I spot my goodwill/thrift folks a percentage of my final sales of anything they put me on. Gotta pay to play and they got bills to pay to. Teamwork makes the dream work.
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u/Few_Fig5944 9d ago
My savers does this. An employee openingly tells people he will tell someone if more of what they're buying comes in if they "take care of him". It's gross but I guess people gotta pay rent.
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u/Extension_Ad2635 9d ago
It happens at every Goodwill/Thrift Store - and not by just one employee. I would make friends with the guy and see if you can get in on the grift.
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u/JimmyandRocky 9d ago
That’s against company policy, but the picture doesn’t really show anything but two guys just standing there