Savers Brand: Value Village

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Value Village – a sister company to a Savers brand - is a for-profit, world-wide thrift retailer which offers used clothing, accessories, and household items. They purchase, resell, and recycle used items which is not just beneficial for low-income communities, but also a successful way to keep over “700 million pounds of used goods out of landfills every year” (Value Village, 2017). Value Village helps over “120 nonprofit organizations by paying them for donated goods which” (Value Village, 2017) in turn supporting the community. Currently there are over 330 locations and 20,000 employees in Canada, the United States and Australia.
Value Village strives to increase awareness on the items which are disregarded as trash and shines light on the

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