This is pathetic. Don't know where to post but I'm really upset. [View all]
I work 2 days a week at a charity thrift shop. The proceeds of the shop go to local food pantries.
I am, like everyone else there, a volunteer.
These past two weeks have been awful. We are all upset and can only do so much watching. The theft rate is unbelievable. The items we have for sale are donations. We get some nice things and also a lot of junk that we have to pay to have trucked away.
People seem to think that anything they give is worth selling. Most of what we receive goes to recycle bins. That point aside, the theft rate is rising to the point that we are all ready to scream. All our hard work to inspect, price and get items to the selling floor seems to be an exercise in futility.
How can people steal from a charity? I know this goes on in regular retail stores but for a charity? Disgusting.
We ask people not to open packages of brand new merchandise, they do it anyway. Then they come to the sales desk, they demand the price on the regular 'used' goods we sell.
Things that have just been put on the selling floor are gone. Nobody at the sales desk sold the goods. They walked.
It is hard not to get angry about this situation. Much of the goods we have set aside for Christmas sales have disappeared. Packages opened and parts gone. Today was the worst ever. Many, many empty boxes of new goods. Where did they go?
Out the door without paying!
This stinks. How much money for the food pantries has gone on it's merry way.
Sometimes it is hard not to get angry but today is not one of those days. I'm really ticked off.
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