The problem is they degrade the value preposition of the shop. If it's understood that the shop doesn't have enough things people want then people will go elsewhere and the charity raises less. The volunteers reallocate the producer surplus meant for the hospital into their own pockets.
There were plenty of people in the shop, so I don't think this is in play for them.
It's not like the volunteers are carting of say "the best books". They just get to see the books first, and there might be something they like. Ditto clothes. Ditto kitchen, dvds, and whatever else was coming in.
Clearly though context matters. This in a jurisdiction that doesn't offer tax incentives for donations, doesn't have $1000 items, and wouldn't know what 3D filliment is, much less anyone to sell it to.
If, over time, a thrift store gets a reputation of never having great stuff or great deals (because the volunteers take the best for themselves), over time that store will lose customer and donor interest and momentum.
This is also why these stores don't like people shopping with price-comparison scanners.
I see what you're saying, I just don't agree about the incentives.
The donors want to get a tax break, and I suspect lack even token concern about what happens to the goods as long as they get that tax break.
The store and charity want money in exchange for those donated goods. They don't care who is paying nor why, they just want the money.
If the volunteers are picking up all of the items worth anything, that's likely fine with all of the involved parties other than other customers. The donors are still getting tax breaks, the charity is still getting their money. The stuff left over wasn't going to sell anyways (otherwise customers would still come in to buy that stuff).
The volunteers are still customers, they're just also unpaid employees.
> This is also why these stores don't like people shopping with price-comparison scanners.
Anecdata, but the ones I've been to don't care. There's about a 50/50 split in my area between stores that pay employees to pick out anything obviously valuable before selling the rest, and stores that have presumably decided it's better/easier to just leave everything intact and sell as is.
I still go sometimes, because there's a wide range of items that either their employees don't know to pick or just aren't worth trying to resell. Eg they almost always pass over 3D printer filament (maybe because of shipping costs), so I buy it up for ~$5/kg. There's really quite a few niches that they either don't think are worth reselling or just lack the knowledge to know to resell.
I agree with you - comma - and there's also a perception that email is less important to the workings of daily life than it is because it's free. Much like car insurance or education or good nutrition a reliable email service not subject to the whims of a tech giant is worth paying for and should also be available to those unable to pay full price.
ggplot2 has plotnine (http://plotnine.readthedocs.io) which has a nearly identical API. I've found though it's not perfect, you can get closer to dplyr with JS-style method chaining on Pandas.
I made a python module / cli utility to collect all the log events that would usually be emailed to me throughout the day, aggregate them, and send digests on schedules based on their importance: https://github.com/asteriske/translogrify
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