rev:text
| - I like Savers as a chain because it's more organized than Goodwill and Salvation Army. Plus they have refurbished all the locations to make them more of a department store environment.
I wouldn't normally go to this location, because it's across town from where I live (west Sahara) but someone I know works nearby, so I occasionally am in the area.
I like savers because I have to clean out my own boxes of things. And when you bring in your stuff, they give you a 20% coupon.
In a Savers, all the items are tagged with a certain color, I think one of 8 maybe. I think this is to keep the stock rotating, because they feature a color for 99 cents every week. The trick is to know what day that is and get in on that first day when the selection is of course the most. One thing that pisses me off about this is that local vintage buyers from other stores stockpile a cart overfilling them with clothes that they'll sell at a markup of at least a factor of 8, over retail in their trendy vintage/ retro, no refund stores. I'm normally a fan of small businesses, but this is predatory on consumers and other businesses.
It annoys me already when a woman is taking all the good medium shirts from the men's section. This is a sexist statement, but how would you feel if a guy was taking all the good woman's dresses and blouses and things that you might be interested in? Especially if that guy was a buyer for their store? I know there may be mothers, but if the son isn't there, you KNOW he's not going to like what she's picked for him. And if I like it, the shirt goes to waste and the kid will eventually send it back to Savers later in tattered condition.
I digress. Savers is doing something department stores have done. They'll move a couple of sections around every month. and I discovered this is because people tend to get jaded and go to "their isles" in a particular store they've been in before. And this mixes the store up so people may go into areas they might not normally and get caught up looking around there. I always wondered why they did that at hell-mart. I thought it was managers squeezing more labor out of their workers, keep everyone busy for no real reason.
|