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.
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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.
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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).