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Originally Posted by pan6467
I said "donations". Compared to Methodist, Baptist and other nationally affiliated churches they recieve far less in donations. As for their Thrift Stores, they do not make as much as people think, by the time overhead (the transportation to centers and some deliver, the washing, fixing and sterilizations that must take place) and payrolls are added.
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When I said "plenty" I took into account national donations (as opposed to most churches that only get donation from parishioners... and even then only some... and even then, very rarely the 15% tithe that is the "standard"), the fact that, at least where I've lived (near Detroit and near Phoenix) more than 50% of the thrift stores donations are brought in by the donator, not picked up, and none of the locations near me deliver anything except for furniture, which is not a consistant item for their stores to sell. In fact at least two of the stores near Detroit (Royal Oak and Rochester) do not deliver at all. They're payroll is slim. Their overhead isn't terribly fat either. Even at $2/shirt, the sale of hundreds of shirts a day does them pretty well.