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Re:Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a con... by pavel_lishin on Sunday January 21, 2024 @10:12AM (#39079140)
On the one hand, shoppers at GoodWill aren't there at gunpoint, being forced to empty their wallets. Nothing is being "foisted" on anyone.

On the other hand, in a sense many of them are, except instead of gunpoint it's economics that mean their clothing choices have a hard dollar limit on them - and at the end of the day, it's better to have a subpar t-shirt than no t-shirt at all.

So I don't think anyone is being hurt here. At worst, the person you're replying to could have done better by donating the shirts to a charity that doesn't sell the clothing, but gives it away.

Anyway, I hope you made yourself feel good with your comment, even if you didn't do any good.

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Re:Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a con... by jkestner on Sunday January 21, 2024 @02:07PM (#39081724)
Goodwill recycles a bunch of clothes, anyway. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-does-goodwill-do-with-yo...
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Re:Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a con... by paulmd on Sunday January 21, 2024 @05:25PM (#39083714)
and they throw away a ton of donations too. they have to, people use goodwill as the substitute for a dumpster, nobody wants your grease-stained metallica shirt with a couple 2" holes in it or the 200th set of hummels either.
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