Talk:Charity shop

message: Playing Devil's Advocate here: I know that many small businesses and town/borough/city councils in the UK and beyond are appalled at the increase of numbers of charity shops. I thought that this transcript from evidence before a parliamentary committee (UK) might add some fuel to the article.
* Proceedings of the Joint Committee of the Draft Charities Bill
Gareth Hughes 20:33, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Against charity shops 

message: I note that an earlier editor changed the date to 1948. I've changed it back, on the basis both of Oxfam's own PDF (mentioned in the edit summary) and of a photo I took the other day, which can be found here and shows a plaque with the following text:
:"The first permanent OXFAM shop began trading here in December 1947"
Loganberry (Talk) 02:17, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm probably the "earlier editor" you're refering to. The reason that I changed it to 1948 is that http://www.oxfam.org.uk/about_us/history/index.htm (History of Oxfam) says "1947: Office acquired in Broad Street, Oxford, used as a collection point for donations. A gift shop opens on the ground floor in February 1948. The first permanent charity shop, it is still open today." I've no idea how to reconcile this with the statements you mention. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 02:41, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've had a go at editing that part of the article slightly - it is a little bit unwieldy like that, but does at least manage to reconcile the two dates. Loganberry (Talk) 15:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Oxfam shop date 

message: I'm from the U.S., and I was under the impression that the term "resale shop" was used for for-profit shops.  People who run them usually go around to garage sales and even cheaper thrift shops and buy the nicer stuff to sell in their stores.  Oh, actually, this is already mentioned in the thrifting article, with the same usage as I've detailed here.  Anyone object to my removing the term from the intro? --Galaxiaad 14:21, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article at Consignment, however, suggests that, while all consignment shops are resale shops, not all resale shops are consignment shops. -- Picapica (talk) 22:51, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: "Resale shop"

message: By no means all charity shops have any connection with Christianity. Not in the UK anyway - some have religious affiliations (YMCA, Salvation Army), but they are probably a minority. Check the list here: http://www.charityshops.org.uk/members.html
I'm not at all sure that categroy belongs here. Any other views?
ProfDEH (talk) 14:13, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's good to get an inside view on this. I read that new section carefully and then edited the page a bit, because the opening paragraph was way too long. The article as a whole needs a balanced neutral viewpoint and I guess I might try to distill the contributions. It needs a more concise description of the different business models - yes, including whether charity shops really get goods for free. Some questions:
*More likely the costs on donated goods are low because the goods would not sell for a higher price? 
*I'm still not sure if operating a "for profit" store is a regular business option, or people basically do it for charitable reasons?
*Is there a generic term for the kind of store run by volunteers?
*Are they individually run, or set up by large charities?
*Goodwill Industries - professionally run and officially non profit making, but I'm not sure if you would put them in the "for profit" category?
ProfDEH (talk) 22:24, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Christianity? etc

message: I don't think many people associate "second-hand shop" with a charity shop. Second-hand shops are more like "junk" or pawn shops in my opinion.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.65.109 (talk) 09:08, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A charity shop is just one type of second-hand shops. Just like any other second-hand shop, a charity shop can have good quality merchandise or can have junk.--RLent (talk) 20:41, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "second-hand shop" 

message: This whole article is mostly awful, a lot of it reads like extracts from a 'which is best, for profit or not for profit' thread - like "um, yeah, and you'd think for-profit stores would smell better, but they don't, they smell worse!" or vice versa et cetera. Scatterkeir (talk) 09:40, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Boy is that the truth.  And it should be called "thrift store", not charity shop despite the stupidity written above.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.157.210.76 (talk) 13:11, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awful 

message: unsigned comment added by 70.161.112.19 (talk) 21:50, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  For profit thrift stores 

message: Are there charity shops outside the English-speaking countries? Irrespective of whether the answer is yes or no, that is something that ought to be mentioned. Norvo (talk) 01:35, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outside the English-speaking countries? 

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message: While a very informative article, it seems that some of the facts and data are missing reputable citations. The most apparent section in reference to this would be the 'History' section lacking outside sources for further information. Jblaniad (talk) 00:55, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
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message: I've heard about the demand for VHS tapes increasing because of people buying them at thrift stores. MightyArms (talk) 05:35, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thrift stores increasing interest in VHS? 

message: Since the American word for it is much more widely used, it has 10 times more Google search results as compared to "charity shop". Also the American version of the word also includes for profit stores, so include that. --194.76.238.254 (talk) 22:39, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I oppose a move as per MOS:RETAIN. See also this recent semi-discussion at RM/TR.  (t/c) 04:08, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename this article Thrift store 

message: It says in the article that Oxfam has the highest number of shops in the UK. This is incorrect; it is actually the British Heart Foundation, with over 700 stores. I would edit the article myself to correct this, but I don't know how. 2A0A:EF40:653:B601:192:F1AF:8637:2930 (talk) 19:10, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect Information