#white people dont interact if you're just going to scream and cry

[cowboycannibalism]

as someone who works in a big chain thrift store, I can tell yall first hand that the majority of what's ruining thrift is rich white college/teen kids. today was our 50% off day and all of these kids are here buying so much clothes and shoes and I literally heard a group of girls say that her dad got her a new credit card to use just for thrifting. they buy things 3x their size, they make a mess of the aisles and they all look pretty much the same because they're all wearing thrifted clothes. like no joke I saw many girls throughout the day in different variations of the same outfit: oversized jeans with a belt, white sneakers, tucked in shirt, crop top or oversized shirt.

I do blame tiktok tbh and the egirl/eboy trend, because that's really when thrifting started to get gentrified. and I say that with my whole fucking chest because it's true, thrifting has become a trend, and while sure it is fun to thrift and its good for the environment but it's also so displacing. A lot of thrift stores have closed their locations in low income areas and only kept the ones in wealthier areas because that's where people are buying huge quantities in single purchases because they have the money to do that.

I grew up in a low income household and thrift stores were life savers for my family and now I see families in the store having to look through picked over aisles. It's a very weird juxtaposition to ring out a girl who just bought a whole cart of clothes and payed without caring about the total and then ring out a family who has to count their money and double check with me that everything is 50% off.

the other big problem is resellers! we have so many that come in and buy all of our higher end things or collectibles and we already know they're going to resell. they openly talk about it with us like it's cool when it's really not. And to tie things together, some of these resellers are the rich college/teen people, they come in with their friends and talk about reselling on depop and stuff and it's shitty.

anyways today fucking sucked and I'm mad about gentrification in the many ways it continues to seep into my everyday life.