Cop asks for DONATION, Goodwill employee says NO
Channel: YourTango
Date: 2024-03-06

When a cop asked a Goodwill employee to donate a pair of shoes for a nearby homeless woman, the Goodwill employee told him that they weren't really allowed to do that.

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employees at a Goodwill store refused to donate a pair of shoes to a homeless woman when a police officer asked them to the police officer explained his situation to the woman behind the counter saying that there was a homeless woman at a gas station down the street without any shoes and asked if they would be able to help employees at the Goodwill talked it over and said that they were not allowed the officer then asked if they had any shoes for sale and an employee showed him to the shoe section where he picked out a pair of flip-flops and purchased them for the homeless woman people were very upset that the store refused to help this homeless woman calling into question how charitable the charity really is the criticisms likely stem from a 2005 email that was later turned into a graphic called think before you donate the email claimed that the CEO is a millionaire who actually profits off of items sold in stores but Goodwill is in fact a nonprofit that doesn't mean though that everything you donate goes straight into stores and stays there for Shoppers items unsold after four weeks make a stop at a Goodwill Outlet Store if unsold items go to textile recycling organizations and then landfills