Savers
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| Savers, Inc. | |
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| Type | Thrift store |
| Founded | 1954 San Francisco, California |
| Headquarters | Bellevue, Washington |
| Industry | Retail |
| Products | Second hand clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, electronics, toys, and housewares. |
| Website | http://www.savers.com |
Savers, Inc. headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, is a privately held for-profit thrift store chain offering secondhand shopping. An international company, Savers has more than 200 locations throughout the United States, Canada and Australia, and receives its merchandise by paying cash to non-profit organizations for donated clothing and household items. Savers is known as Value Village in the Pacific Northwest and Canada, and Village des Valeurs in Quebec. In Australia and other regions of the United States, the stores share the corporation's name.
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[edit] Business
Under Savers’s business model, the company partners with local non-profits by purchasing and reselling donated items. The non-profits collect and deliver donated goods to Savers, which pays them for the items at a bulk rate regardless of whether they ever make it to the sales floor. Donations are also collected at stores directly, and the company makes payments to its non-profit partners when it receives goods this way. Savers has more than 160 non-profit partners throughout the United States, Canada and Australia, which it pays more than $117 million annually.
Reusable items are displayed for purchase in stores, while unsuitable items are shipped to developing countries and material wholesalers for recycling. As nearly half of all donations are unsuitable for retail sale, roughly 262 million pounds of clothing, shoes, toys, books and other items are sold and shipped to developing countries each year. Items that are shipped to developing countries are sold at local markets or shredded and recycled into rags.
[edit] Trivia
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- The cover of the Die Mannequin album Slaughter Daughter contains two porcelain cats, one of which has a price tag from Value Village on it.
