Being politically active with your dollars gets hard, trying to not feed the beast is growing more difficult. I like thrift stores because you don't support exploitation of resources or large corporations that way, but if it's Goodwill or Salvation Army, you're supporting exploitation of the homeless ("work therapy" where you work for them for a dollar an hour). But smaller thrift shops that support local charities are getting driven out of business by the exploitive ones. I need pants, dammit.
@LnzyHou Did you ask specifically disabled ones? Those are the ones they can legally pay under minimum wage and still do so in some places. They say they are phasing it out, but they are framing it as something the disabled people need for a while until they can get mainstreamed, which seems sketchy. Probably they still do it where they can get away with it, for as long as they can do so, until pressure gets to be too much.
https://www.goodwill.org/about-the-special-minimum-wage-certificate/
@tippitiwichet
The Goodwill workers in NC do not make $1 an hour. They make federal minimum wage. I’ve asked many employees in many locations.