Thrift stores more expensive now, anyone noticed?

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15 years ago it used to be I could shop in second hand stores with $10 cash and buy a bunch of stuff for cheap. Lot of things like books or cassettes would be under a dollar and clothes would be a couple bucks each. Toys would be under a dollar.

Now today, $10 is nothing. Prices have gone up. Shopping at Goodwill is now like shopping at a bargain store. I have gotten used to high prices now ion thrift stores so it's rare now when I go to any thrift store and find insanely low prices. I actually know a couple places in my area near my house where things are still cheap like the old fashioned way. I picked up some vinyl records for 50 cents a piece. At Goodwill near my house, they are $2.99.

I used to buy tons of stuff at Goodwill in my early twenties and now I walk out with a few stuff now because prices have gone up. After 1 Goodwill, I am done when I have spent money there. I can't just drive around town anymore hitting thrift stores like I used to do.

I wonder if prices have gone up because thrifting has become a thing now so they raised the prices due to demand. I only went there because I didn't make much money.

Anyone else notice the pricing increase in thrift stores?

I am not going to really complain when I buy something at Goodwill that would cost more in a regular store. Especially if I see a brand new item that is useful that would go much higher in retail. But I know tons of people are complain and are saying if they are going to be spending this much money on a used item, they will just go to a retail store and spend just as much for that same item they want that would be better quality.

Years ago I remember volunteering at a few charity shops. There was this horrible dominating, bossy, miserable woman in every one. In one of them this woman kept ordering me to price up items that were designer (£10-20 for designer jeans or something). I had no idea which were designer so I kept asking her what prices I should price everything. She kept rolling her eyes at me and told me to figure it out myself. The clothes I took all day to price came back to me in a big pile, as if what I had done hadn't been good enough. I didn't turn up the next day.

Minimum wage went up too

Yes, it is more expensive.

I've also found that stores have lots of cute items in XS as teasers on sale. Great prices but most women can't fit in them. But I can. It makes more sense for me to buy new stuff on sale.

In the UK the greedy pigs have taken over everywhere, and over the last few years this phenomenon has reached charity shops, which used to be very cheap places to shop and find a bargain or two - no longer the case though. The charity organizations themselves now have 'CEOs' who often earn several hundred thousand pounds per annum.

You can see a similar thing with the Building Societies, which used to be mutually owned and run for the benefit of their members (savers and borrowers) - many converted to banks and were listed on the stockmarket, but even the remaining mutuals now have directors on sky-high salaries and are run like banks. The 'CEO' of the Nationwide Building Society 'earns' over £3,000,000 per year.

After reading comments online about it, people say the internet ruined charity shops and yard sales because people now want to price their stuff for the same items that are priced online. People will look up how much an item is selling for and sell their item for that price at their yard sale or Goodwill. For an argument, people say if you don't want to sell an item for cheap price, put it online to sell or take it to a consignment store or trade in your good video games for cash.

People also say hipsters and yuppies killed charity stores because they all started shopping in them and it made the prices go up.

People also blame it on resellers, they would go to yard sales and charity shops and buy a bunch of stuff that is good quality or vintage and sell online for higher price. So they say this is how the internet ruined yard sales and thrift stores. Everyone can see it now.

I feel sorry for poor people. Makes me want to just donate my stuff to charity than to any Goodwill. I know a couple thrift shops here that sells their items insanely cheap and one of the places often does 50% of sales or 25% off sales and they do holiday sales where everything is half off. I can donate my stuff there now but it will be a longer drive.

Woop, I take back saying one of them is cheap because I was just there today and they had clothes marked at $6.99 or $12.99 and even if half off day, it is till expensive for used pants. But at least the comics were 50 cents.

I think a large reason the prices went up is cuz of inflation in general. Things that used to cost $20 in retail now cost over $50

As an avid thrifter, I've definitely noticed. Prices have increased in general though. The cost of living has gone up but wages remain stagnant.

Here's some data: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2 ... r-decades/

Everything is more expensive now. Last night I learned that a $1.25 in the 1950's would be around $14.00 in 2019.