#theres 90 billion pieces of clothing made a year and u cant find nice second hand clothese bc of the re sellers?

[spectrestatic]

I never comment directly on posts but this made me mad enough to.

Resellers are not the problem it's the companys; prices going up have nothing to do with people trying to make ends meet by going to thrift stores to re sell clothing. It's just business being greedy.

Valuevillage (for example) is a forprofit company and they raised there prices bc they wanted more; during the beginning of covid they realized that they made more money without change rooms and have not put them back as restrictions where pulled back. Because it made them more money at our expense.

Vintage stores and people with business licenses will go to rag houses and buy bulk second hand clothing to re-sell and i dont see anyone complaining about them. Only the poorest people trying to do that go themselves into stores to find things.

And less than a quarter of what's donated to thrift stores is even put out on the floor.

In just Canada, they estimate the 500 million kg of clothing are thrown out a year. Only 20% of what is collected is sold.

If u want to see more talked about this by someone in the garment industry look at madeline_pendleton tictocs on it shes been in the fashion industry for 15 (I think) years and is what made me aware of this.

There's more than enough to go around but company's make necessary goods like food and water a way for them to make money is the problem; not people in your class trying to make some money.

thrift store resellers are like if landlords were egirls