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Walked past the Australian Red Cross opshop in Bridge road during lunchtime - They're doing a sale of jeans for "from $5". Which is a huge discount on their regular prices. Their stock is good but comparatively exxy imo.
Red Cross is the rip-offiest op shop.
Brotherhood of St Lawrence and Salvos also can be way overpriced.
My local salvos would like a word. Used Scrabble game (with missing letters probably) was priced at $15.
I'm not necessarily opposed to supporting religious orgs since it is hard to find op shops that aren't (not that there isn't, like Savers isn't religious-based iirc). But I'd rather support other places than salvos who are pretty known to be anti-sex work/lgbtqia+/homeless/basically anything.
Yeah I don't think I've ever shopped at Salvos. Only opshops I've bought from is Vinnie's, but I also volunteered there for experience and Savers because my partner works there. But I do try and avoid salvos because of it. But I am quite lucky that there are other options nearby. I imagine if that's your only opshop for a while then I don't fault anyone from buying from there.
I only recently learned that Savers is a US company that owns Value Village (which was my local op shop back in Canada).
Haven't been to a salvos op shop since I was looking for a cheapish but not terrible couch and they were selling one of those cane ones with foam cushions from the 70s for $300!
That's just taking the piss to another level. My daughter loves op shops and Salvos is the closest. Generally I find savers to have the best deals and the best selection.