Thrift-Store Sales Rise, But Donations Fall
Instead of giving goods away, many are reselling them for a few needed bucks to for-profit shops.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 4, 2009, McClatchy Newspapers — When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
It's a jest, but it's true, at least in this sense: When the economic going gets tough, the tough go shopping at thrift stores.
Millions of people have less to spend, so they spend more where goods cost less - at retail secondhand stores run by charities or for profit.
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