I seldom ever go to thrift stores anymore because they now charge $5 for a used T-shirt.
But I needed knives that I could destroy so I could make a knife sharpening jig. Before finding any knives I found this for a dollar less than a T-shirt. I make pizza every week. This is going to make that 7% easier. Hopefully another project will go according to plan and this will make it 90% easier.
Anyway, I needed this. I was thinking I was going to have to make one but now I get to skip that.
The online thing really bugs me. Local people donate to help their community. The store takes the good stuff exports it out of the area before anyone local gets a chance to keep it in the community. The thrift stores justify it because it gets more revenue. But thrift stores are about more than gross receipts. They have an obligation to the community.
They are failing that obligation by mining the community by extracting resources.