Savers Value Village, Inc.

So there's a lot of different religious affiliates, and sometimes the goods are just more than they can keep up with.

There are, in fact, so many piles of unwanted clothes that thrift stores start to make money bailing up all their excess and selling it off, and they sell it to a new kind of client, the for-profit thrift store, pioneered by Savers or Value Village, which started in 1969.

Savers is taking advantage of a kind of new market as secondhand goods become more popular.

So Savers would buy up, in bulk, all the excess clothes from a smaller charity shop or thrift store.

It was on the condition that he not use a cell phone outside the home.

But police watched Chan over three days as he took phones into multiple businesses, including Fitness World and Value Village.

Court records show Chan previously recorded more than 400 women in Value Village.

Crown attorney Paul Cheeseman says Chan was, quote, "out looking for more victims." Chan was rearrested weeks later.

Ashley Dryburgh is an advocate working to support victims and has concerns.

And I don't really like buying t-shirts because of that, because I feel like they're so expensive and they're just like a small piece of fabric.

I would rather go to a secondhand store like Value Village or Goodwill and just buy t-shirts for like $5.

That's usually what I did.

But here I did buy a couple of t-shirts.

So I said, okay.

I went to Value Village, a secondhand store, and I bought a pair of jeans that I thought was like decent fit at the time.

And then I immediately took that to Fabricland, bought a little couple yards of denim, went home, took apart the jeans, recut them out of the new fabric, and attempted it.

How

And they actually had an issue that showed like the step by step on how to make a pair of jeans.

And I was like, whoa, this is like legit a cheat code.

So I would go to the machine stores and be like, what is this machine right here? This is the one I want, you know.

And, you know, after buying some of them and being just also not realizing that, like, Like, is this actually what I'm supposed to buy? I don't even know.

It's right here.

It's signed Penny Pincher, who asks, Why can thrift stores like Value Village charge GST and HST on donated items? The taxes were already paid by the original purchaser.

Well, Penny Pincher, this one's for you.

It's Tuesday afternoon at a Value Village in Calgary, and Ted Stobie is on a mission.

Well, we need a little clock for our motorhome, and it only fits in a certain spot, and it can only be so big.

This clock has to be about eight inches wide, so Ted has a measuring tape with him.

And secondhand goods are a growing part of the economy.

Every year, Canadians spend millions of dollars buying other people's old stuff.