Value Village

Value Villages pricing has definitely surpassed other charity shops and even other vintage and antique shops. Over the past several months, thrift shoppers have been calling out Value Village for raising its prices on used items. Now the company makes it clear that it is a for-profit enterprise, but many say that the prices have dramatically increased to the point where sometimes it's cheaper for me to buy somet The bargains that were to be found was a huge motivator for people to shop second hand and now that it'so expensive I'm worried that it will drive people away from doing that. Jody Lye is part of a community of vintage resellers online who feel the Vintage seller Harrison Snyder agrees. With apps . . become hyper-accelerated. So a lot of people have now begun to focus on thrifting as a trend rather than it being a point of necessity. And I believe that corporations are noticing t Value Village explains its business model on its website. The company says it accepts donations on behalf of local nonprofits and pays their charity partners for those goods, w A marketing expert says thrifting being trendy is Price sensitivity for vintage items has changed. T I don'think they're doing it specifically to quote gouge cons I t But the market conditions also allow them to do t I don'they're there to get a reasonable return, but at the same time try to divert t And then at the same time fulfill a mission wit But advocates say they are now falling short of that mission. Emily Renault from Canada Without Poverty is a former Value Village employee. Someone who did the training as an employee and was sort of sold the image of, We help deter t Well, I don't We reached out to Value Village to better understand the changes in pricing and the reasons be We'll keep t ca. For City News, I'm Dhotiad Burman.