Comments on: Mary Queen of Charity Shops – The Retro Chick Review

By: pires

pires — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:57:44 +0000

merci! post très utile!

By: MarthaWood

MarthaWood — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:01:54 +0000

I drove down Orpington High Street today and I reckon the only thing wrong with Save the Children’s shop is that it is in the wrong place.

There are 7 or 8 other charity shops in the main area of footfall round Tesco, Boots, Smiths, the Post Office and the bus stops. Save the Children is right down the other end where shoppers have no reason to go.

The money spent on the revamp would have been better used to hire new premises – plenty of empty retail sites in the recession.

By: Kimberley

Kimberley — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:57:36 +0000

Donation bins require more money and volunteers than the charities might have, your two examples aren’t the smallest of organisations.

You make an excellent point about why charity shops shouldn’t look like the High Street. I volunteer for Books For Amnesty and thought Mary Portas had a couple of very good ideas like D Day. However, there was so much she didn’t seem to know about the charity or volunteer sector, which made the programme something of a disappointment.

By: Julie Kay

Julie Kay — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:31:00 +0000

Hi,I run a charity shop and there are 2 things a charity shop needs a good manager and lots of nice volunteers,which we have in our shops.I do all the sorting of clothes and get rag money for the ones what arent saleable and steam and price the nice ones only,then to keep the charity shop feel we have bargain baskets like all tshirts 50p,and cut price on a sat.we always hit our targets,vols are mixed ages and are very co-operative we did nearly £2000 last week.come and buy modern clothes from Help The Aged in hillsborough,Sheffield.xxx

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