Rapidly expanding thrift store chain Savers, Inc., offers shoppers charitable claims that “appear to be vastly overblown,” InvestigateWest reports. Despite the slogan of Savers’ Value Village stores—“Good deeds. Great deals.”—InvestigateWest’s investigation found that the company’s charity partners only receive between 8 and 17 percent of Savers’ total revenue, and the store “does not routinely tell donors how much of their used-goods donation actually goes to charity.”
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