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Originally Posted by kane
There is another in my city that comes to mind.
It is a small shop that sells nothing but clothes and other items that feature the logos/names of the local school teams. If your kid is in on, for example, a little league team, this is where you go to get their uniform. They also sell letterman jackets and other local school related stuff. It is a small shop that is family run and does well.
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I was sitting in the car with my GF talking at the gym (a large chain gym). There was a box in the parking lot to donate clothes. A box van pulled up to empty it as we were sitting there and she commented that she knew a guy that was very well off doing that.
I was a little confused and asked "doing what". As she starts to talk, the guys open up the van and start tossing clothes and bags of clothes in and a 20' van is full almost to the roof by 9:30am. I always assumed they were non profit donations.. church's, Goodwill etc.
These particular boxes from the same guy were all over the place. There is one in front of a business i own. The boxes say nothing on them other than buzz words "recycle", "donate" etc. I had always assumed they were charities.
In the case of these specific ones, the guy who was doing it was Pakistani. He sends all the clothes to some small town in Pakistan, they are cleaned, sorted, tagged etc and then shipped all over the region and the world to be sold.
Now, when i see these boxes I always look at them. There are tons of people doing the same thing. The boxes have a lot of great buzz words plastered all over them but have nothing to do with charity.
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