Secrets of the Goodwill Bins
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- čas přidán 12. 10. 2023
- We're walking past the "Employees Only" sign in this one! Get ready to see everything behind the closed doors of the Goodwill Outlet in Salt Lake City, Utah! Shout out to @ESGWNRM for the access.
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For those who hate resellers and absolutely do not understand that Goodwill is not a poor people store. Watch this video. THERE'S SO MUCH CLOTHING!! They have to put it in bales and get rid of it!! There's more than enough to go around.
💯 thanks for bringing that up!
But the people who believe that are just to ignorant and we can never change their minds... just have to ignore them
Fhey throw a lot away too
Wow! You just unlocked a level in the thrifting world 👏🏼
There wouldn’t be a need for these outlets if the regular Goodwill stores remembered that they were supposed to be a THRIFT store. I’ve seen many price tags within the stores that match those at Walmart or TJ Max/ Marshall’s. Whereas if they’re going to price them that high, you may as well go to them.
There’s always going to be overflows but Goodwill sure does charge too much for a lot of things!
Omg you are sooooo right!!!! At the GW's in my area sweaters are now 7.99 and pants are 8.99! That is just for the things with no new tags on them. Records used to be 1.00 and sometimes if they had a lot of them it would be 0.50 but now they are 2.99! Let's not even get into glasses, vases, plates and pots and pots, etc. that stuff is RIDICULOUS!!!!!
@@shannon_w. That’s it. They are under the impression they have pristine merchandise worth near top dollar. A very big NOT. I gave up on them before the pandemic.
My favorite was the mini interviews with the bin rummagers. Another fantastic video!
They were ready for the spotlight 😎
Thanks for making this! We’re excited to share all the great finds at the Goodwill Outlet in Salt Lake City. As an independent nonprofit organization, Goodwill relies on donations from the community and sales from our Goodwill stores and outlet to support our wide range of Easterseals-Goodwill programs including employment, clinical, children’s, and disability programs in Utah, southern Idaho and Montana. Thank you again!
Thanks so much for having me 🙏🏻
One of my customers at the Post Office does this for a living. Talks all the time about how much she enjoys not working for her previous boss and working for herself instead. Keep up the great work Tyce!
That’s the ultimate benefit! Thanks so much for reaching out!
An exclusive BTS 😮 loved this!
Thanks! It was fun being there
Glad to know that the leftovers from the bins get shipped overseas and not to the landfills.
So cool to see behind the scene 👏
This was sooo cool, and quite interesting. I can't believe how huge the back area operation is.
That part surprised me the most too!
You’re Gonna grow from this video a lot
Thanks, man. It was fun!
Wow! There are a lot of T-shirt guys there 🤣 The last time I was there one of them had some carhartt jeans that he was debating on keeping or tossing them back, my daughter was standing near him when he was going through his debate. I guess he noticed so he took a knife out and cut a huge hole in the jeans and threw them back. Ridiculous and Scary!
😬 I don’t like the mentality those people have. There’s enough to go around for everyone
Lmao what a douche
this was one of my favorite bins videos ever. thanks for taking us behind the scenes!
So glad you liked it! Thanks for giving my videos a chance
Love your hat! I went to the Stay in School Jam in the early 90's 😁
No way! Thanks, it’s a fav of mine
Great video and so happy I found you. I always wondered how the BINS operates. I live in upstate New York and the closest GoodWill BINS is over an hour away,, I crossed that off my bucket list. Now I am a subscriber to your channel. Thanks so much for sharing.
I’m glad you got to go to the bins even though it’s so far for you. Thanks for subscribing!
"we keep stuff out of the landfills in the US by sending it to Africa and Pakistan" lol still landfills
Hopefully the stuff goes to more people in need overseas vs it going into landfills
This was great and very informative. Thanks
Thanks for taking the time to let me know!
Thanks Jose and Ana!!!
Awesome. You got to go back in & do interview! Famous now! 😀
Excellent information ❤
I always wondered how it worked in the back. Thx for showing us. Was interesting
Thanks for checking out my channel!
That was so cool! Thank you!
Thanks for checking out the channel!
Thank You For The Quality Of Information. This Helps To Know The Business Side -So Much More.😮😮😮
Thanks for looking at the channel 🙏🏻
Thank you for the tour! My Bins location is very frustrating. GW moved the bins to a much smaller location and the bins do not get switched out frequently. I did see the manager one day and talked to him about it. I wish there was a webcam and we could check it and see the new rotations happening. I live 2 minutes away. That would work for me! but....oh well
That’s a great idea!
My GW bins did the same thing. They gave up a larger space that they were renting, and into a smaller location that they've owned for over 40 yrs., and still keep raising the prices.
I like how they put the blankets on top. They don't do that at mine (Portland, OR) and everyone flocks to the "good" bins first.
I noticed she didn’t really answer your question about what the Goodwill does for the community. I know Salvation Army helps out a lot because I’ve seen them in action. I don’t know that Goodwill does anything except train handicapped people to be able to work for them. I’ve also read that the CEO of Goodwill is one of the highest paid people in America.
She did dabble talking about a couple programs but I cut it for time. She said she wasn’t the best person to ask about it.
Goodwill is 155 separate companies each with their own ceo. I know ours isn't a multimillionaire. He might be a millionaire but he's been ceo of several non profits. I hope to work my way up to that point. Half way there.
very educational, thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Very interesting! 😊
Thanks, Tracy
Excellent video sending 🇨🇦❤️
Thanks so much, April!
Great video!
Thanks so much for watching, Charlene!
I’m glad they are sending this overseas. Goodwill is a very astute company. Recycling, reselling is really such a good thing.
Yeah that sound great but unfortunately there is way too much going overseas now and it is just a basic dumping ground for America’s consumption problem. They do not want anymore Goodwill donations.
They don't do it for the good of humanity. It's profit driven. Goodwill is a horrible company, look into it. I did community service there Moons ago and it was unbearable. It's really sad and gross how they treat/slave work the bottom level staff. Good for them if they makout with something good. It was against policy at the one I was at, they didn't even want me shopping there which was fine by me. This was in LA, there were definitely some piranhas shopping there. The whole experience made me feel dirty.
The way she explained it to me, people overseas purchase the nails before they get sent over.
Great vid!!! Subbed!!!!
Thanks! Welcome
those Goodwill Employees seemed Very Nice.
They were awesome!
I'm from UT I did not now we had one exciting 😮😮😊
I wish they used blankets over the bins at my local outlet. There are very aggressive people that scope out what they're grabbing before we get the signal & it's whoever is strongest & pushiest prevails.
For sure. It gives everyone a fair shot
Alot of this is not true, worked at goodwill and they do let you look and pick stuff out before the public, and Ive also had to throw perfectly good things in the dumpster because it "doesnt sell well"
Which Goodwill did you work at?
On slow times before closing employees from the back came up the the register with all kinds of goodies, and talking about some of the high end stuff they've acquired.
I'm not mad about it. They bust their butts for minimum wage. How else are they gonna afford decent stuff.
That's how it is at my bins...some of the guys that work there I know for sure are wearing stuff they find.
@@tycetycebaby Allegan, Michigan
True and some employees get paid by certain customers to hold back whatever items come in they want. And, text them to let them know about it. How do I know this? I heard the whole conversation take place.
I remember when the bins were not as popular, I would take my L.O with me and there were maybe 10 people in total for hours, I would find so much cool stuff to keep and for reselling, but a lot of those people that came out in your video messed it up , they are rude and push elderly and kids around in search of that elusive band tee. Hoping another bins opens soon. Cool video
Most people at this location are respectful of each other. Hope you get another bins too! Looks like there’s enough inventory for it!
Sadly our bins here in Minnesota North Dakota area was in Fargo North Dakota and it's closed about a year ago I sure do miss it I loved going and searching through the clothes and I would also find plenty of other items that held my interest and came home with me
@@kajiracherries Might be worth the travel to find the next closest one
Not every store prohibits there employees from holding back inventory for themselves. I’ve witnessed an employee take several pairs of shoes out of a shopping cart. Put them out on the retail shoe rack. Race into the back, only to return with GW vest off, empty shopping cart, grabbed all the shoes he just stocked, threw them into the empty shopping cart, went to cashier and purchased everything. And, he walked out the store.
You’d think that employee would learn to be a little more subtle 🤣
@@tycetycebabyIMO why bother when their all probably doing it.
I'm all about everyone getting a chance at a deal but if it's against the policy, have some integrity
Its shipped overseas and ends up in big landfills there
If it's not actually dumped in the ocean 😢
@@avalondreaming1433 - there's actually a documentary on YT, that shows the stuff once it got to Africa, and I think much of it is used. But I can't imagine if all that is going out from that one location, that all these countries buy it ALL.
What’s the documentary? I’d love to watch it
@@tycetycebaby- Not 100% sure if this is the same one:
The environmental disaster fuelled by used clothes and fast fashion
Thanks! @@dmreddragon6
thanks
i am from Illinois and they shut down the bin store in Rockford and they only store is in Southern Illinois. I wish they would rebuild a bin store near their Yorkville illinois location. It has lots of land near it and is located where suburbs and exurbs meet and where they are a small drive from poorer communities that may want to do flipping to feed their families. It is in the demographic sweet spot. please like my reply to show support for bin stores in the Chicagoland area or more Bin stores period.
Liked. Usually lots of good stuff I see in other thrift videos coming from Illinois areas!
Justin Timberlake of reselling 😊😅 nice video
Haha, I appreciate it
@@tycetycebaby you did good job.
This is GREAT information and so interesting! I'm a reseller who uses Goodwill as one of my sources. I want my viewers to see this -- I'm going to make a short with a link to this video!
Go for it!
I had no idea there was a Bins in Utah!
It’s kinda hidden out in the industrial side of West Valley
A MASSIVE location. The backroom blows my mind.
I troll Goodwill when they ask what i'm looking for just like this lady said they pull the expensive items for their online stores, I'm not trying to help them out in what to look for to takeout of the public rotation. I tell them i look for Maurices, Greg Norman, and All In Motion. It's already bad enough they pull the video games in my area and a few years ago they did away with the color tag sales. Someone in my area would always talk about Harley tees while in the store and guess what stopped getting put out and is now online only the Harley tees in my area lol. Also yes they do ship alot of clothing overseas to other countries but it still ends up in landfills just not ours, they ship the garbage or less desirable items overseas and it's sold as a mystery they don't know what they're getting and alot of it is trash, so it just ends up in another countries landfill. There's a pretty big documentary on youtube about the billions of pounds of clothes that sit in landfills across the world and the people explain that most of it comes from the U.S just discarding their clothes elsewhere.
For sure. It’s not fun seeing all the best stuff come out less and less at Goodwills over the last couple years.
Enjoyed your video! I have subscribed. I actually saw you today talking with Josh and Hayley today. I sent Josh a message and asked him what your channel name is. I am glad I did. Best of luck to you!
So kind of you! Thanks! Hopefully we’ll have another chance to meet if I come through SC again!
Yes Sir, your videos are great.@@tycetycebaby
They also put stuff they dont allow at goodwill stores here.
Interesting. What kind of stuff like that have you seen?
I wish we had bins here where I live!
Where are you at?
@@tycetycebaby midland texas
@@tycetycebaby Midland, Texas
@jadestone8552 I'm planning on a thrift trip to Texas. Heard there were some good shops out there!
@@tycetycebaby Lubbock Texas has some great shops on 34th street and there were a couple of Goodwill stores that were decent but haven’t been in a couple of years.
I would debate the notion these are all store returns. Not sure what is going on but you definitely find stuff which would have sold easily at any Thrift Store. My hunch is many clean never put on display at a regular store donations end-up at the bins too. I think the truth is they are buried in clothes'. There is not enough time to even sort it at many stores. So they toss it in their gaylords and off it goes to the bins.
I’m sure that’s a possibility. This location probably sorts through more than other Goodwill Outlets I’ve seen.
It’s not returns it’s stuff that didn’t sell. Stale inventory. And yes most Goodwill regions whose inflow outpaces their store floor capacity will send donations directly to the outlet (after sorting through for high value items to sell online)
So much ends up there only because they price it so high at the shops no person can get it.
Makes me wonder why they don't sell it a little cheaper in the first place
Or in the stores a lot of racks they stuff so full if you want to see an item, you literally have to pull it off the rack. But yeah, I guess it is worth it to sell a pair of jeans for$12.99, and 20 others to the bins to sell. As high as bins prices are getting they're making about $2 a pr., so why not mark them at $4.99 in the stores? Go figure.
I have lived in 5 states. I am now in Colorado, and here the way they operate the bins stores promotes more aggression. It is despicable. They don't use the blanket covers, (no big deal) but they actually paint red lines on the perimeter and make people stand behind them until they yell SHOP. It is always the same offenders, after electronics and they will knock you down to get at them. Nothing is ever done about the warriors pushing and shoving. Pretty pathetic when you consider the fact that there is never anything in these bins worth being rude or aggressive to get.
I think the competition is fun but that behavior is pathetic. It should never be rewarded.
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damn thats one tiny goodwill outlets mine is bigger and less busy
Where’s your Goodwill?
Wish we had a goodwill bins in 🇨🇦. All we have are regular stores with no deals
Bummer! You should come visit! I’ve been traveling all around the US finding deals for future videos and it’s been a blast!
Hubby works as an assistant manager at a goodwill that is connected to Easter seals. In the same town is another goodwill that is not.
Interesting. Odd some are connected and some aren’t.
@@tycetycebaby - Where I live if you shop at a non profit thrift store, there's no sales tax. I haven't shopped all the GW stores , but the one's I have don't have the sales tax. Neither do the Salvation Army ones.
"Its her 16th birthday and I like to thrift so..." Thanks mom. 🙄
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The bins I go to are very different, I was there last week and someone choked someone else out over a vcr player.
Sheesh, people gotta chill. It’s just stuff.
Rumors say all bin leftovers are trashed to the landfills. Good to know the clothes at least are being sold on and not sent to landfills but I wonder if you asked about what happens to the hard goods? Also shoes??
She told me they do ship pallets of other hard goods like toys overseas but I'm not sure how much
I know some of the electronics were striped for parts when i was in Texas, but the rest of it they don't salvage goes to the landfill. I think there's a youtube video about electronics and parts ending up in landfills that's starting to become a big problem because it's so much and isn't biodegradable. Also alot of the clothes still endup in the landfills just not in america because they ship it overseas but since what they're shipping overseas is the bottom of the barrell stuff that even other countries don't want, it still ends up sitting in landfills, there's also a documentary on that aspect on youtube.
all bins are different
Nice, except knowing how it is here, she might be exaggerating (or lying) about where the majority of stuff comes from and where it goes if it doesn't sell...
Our bins puts out a majority of stuff that never made it to a store and most of what doesn't sell goes into large dumpsters lined up behind the facility headed for the dump...tons and tons of them!
I bet you probably find better quality items at your bins but it’s unfortunate the stuff hasn’t had a better chance to get purchased
@@tycetycebaby Not necessarily, but when you often find things wrapped in 30-50 year newspaper and can tell it has been untouched for who knows how many years, ya know 😉 I don't know what the Goodwill retail stores in your area are like, but ours have almost no used stuff, clothes and shoes, yes, other stuff, nope.
Sorry to say but the one by my home in sacra ca the ppl just throw items around digging thru and if you are close by you can get hurt they literally start tossing items and employees don't stop them or say anything,I did manage to find a few things but it wasn't safe,I will just shop at the goodwill store and donate.
Yeah, when it gets crazy like that, it’s not worth it
So it goes back to where it’s made… insane - however, seen documentaries how these clothes just get send to Africa and so on and lay in landfills no one wants it. Was wondering if these clothing brought in have bugs. I like thrift stores you never know what you will find.
That’s a good question. Not sure but that would be gross. I usually wash whatever I get from thrifts right away just in case
naw if I worked as a sorter imma hide my finds somewhere somehow lmaoo
🤣 sometimes it’d be hard not to!
Naw... Imma? Yep, I believe you would.
Shout out JNCO. Don’t call it a comeback
JNCO’s living like the Sanderson Sisters 🤣
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So this is actually not the last stop before it goes to the landfills… they give it to another country to be their problem?
Yes, they sell it to other countries before they dump it here
Apparently the other countries want the clothes. They expect to find some good wearable clothing.
If goodwill would lower their prices all these items wouldn't get sent here :(
I catch an original Goodwill price tag on stuff here sometimes and think, “yeah, no wonder it’s here”
@tycetycebaby exactly! I found a Pendelton wool robe and it had a tag from GW for $79.99... umm what!!! And I'm from OK! But it was cool I found such a nice item
So weird for me that these 20 something are obsessed with my 90s clothing. We liked some 80s stuff in the 90s but not 60s 70s its been 20+ years. Video Id love to see is one of these other countries getting the goodwill shipment. Stuff we would pass up on they could be happy about going through and use. The US is so wasteful on clothing.
I’d watch that video too!
BS about not getting first dibs. In an outlet near me, the manager lets buyers know where they "buried" items that they usually look for and get "tipped".
Interesting. Sounds like each outlet runs a little bit different
Yess so true. Last Thursday I was in the section where they sell pots for plants. Shoved behind a mound of stuff. I found some Royal Doulton dinner plates and matching bowls. Someone sure won’t be happy when they go to get them & they’re missing.
Since when is Goodwill for profit?
They clarified in an earlier comment that they are a non-profit.
There are the higher ups who make big big fat salaries with big big perks. A true non profit would keep less and give more.
It doesn't look like fun. You really need to know what's valuable or what sells to make $.
Yeah, if you’re reselling, you’ve got to put the time in before you know what to look out for. I’m overstimulated in 30 mins and usually head out haha
Too much supply and too much demand. Such a waste.
I think a lot of the blame goes to fast fashion
@@tycetycebaby how 'bout those that buy fast fashion?
@@sherylF5610 yep, buyers and sellers
Are u sure u aren't Justin Timberlake?
If Britney’s new book is accurate, I’m sure ;)
I l ike the blanket over the bins idea, however I do not like the fact that they remove expensive items. Booo Goodwill
I agree. Takes some of the fun out of the searching when a lot of the best stuff never makes it out to the people!
@@tycetycebaby thanks for this tour I always wondered how things work back there !!!
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Uff, It Is looks horrible for me 😮
It’s not for everyone! I even get overwhelmed after like 20 mins and I love it haha
Thank god my outlet heavily enforces the NO cameras or recording rule....SMH this is so corny and just leading to even further oversaturation of one of the last remaining true sources for resellers. What other business on the planet directly advertises to their competitors every single detail about the business and source of inventory....NONE for a reason.
This video is for the person who wants to get a deal on a cool shirt as much as it’s for someone getting started into reselling. I believe if someone is good enough at what they do, they don’t need to gatekeep.
@@tycetycebaby You will learn eventually...
Omg the goodwill bins are not a secret. Get over yourself. The problem is resellers who think they are the only ones who should “know” about a source. Do you not see the thousands of items heading for landfills? Plenty of crap for EVERYONE