Interview With A Salvation Army Thrift Store Manager

Here is the summarized interview that was taken place on July 15, 2016 with the Salvation Army Thrift Store manager, Narmada Indrasiri. She has been a manager at Salvation Army for 4 years with 2 years volunteer experience. The main goal of this interview was to discover difficulties the company have been facing due to unwanted donations that people dump outside their drop-off area.

Every year the company attends a trade show in High Point, North Carolina. Hundreds of companies in the industry attend, and Bob’s Discount Furniture uses this showing to view new products, spot trends in the industry, and build relationships. In the interview, Ron Bomberger, VP of store operations, claimed that BDF is “somewhat of a follower in the design standpoint” by spotting styles that will work with their customer base in order to make furniture fun. BDF follows a “Jack Wells method” where the bottoms 30% of goods are dropped each year because they are not only taking up space on the floor, but they are also reducing their total revenue each year. They keep track of how many of each item is sold and use the

Initiated and organized holiday fundraiser for two consecutive years at MAXIMUS Federal Services and raised $1,200 in four weeks from gifts donated by employees. As part of my assignment while employed with Kearney & Company, P.C. (Kearney), I was assigned the responsibility of acting as a member on the prime contractor’s (MAXIMUS) Social Committee. As an active member of the committee, my colleagues and I were tasked with promoting collaboration amongst the subcontractors. While hosting a variety of events successfully boosted morale throughout the office, the committee agreed that we should do more. As it was the holiday season, we decided to display a giving tree in the office which had ornaments hanging on it with different items requested by families in need currently staying at the Heartly House. Located in Frederick, Maryland, the Heartly House provides comprehensive services for victims and survivors of domestic violence. The tree was a great success. In just four short weeks, the employees from all of the subcontractors united and purchased every item on the tree. The families at the Heartly House were able to enjoy the holiday season because of the efforts of the Social Committee and the collaboration amongst the

As vice president of Association of Pickers of Jardim Gramacho (ACAMJG), Valter, explain interesting fact that almost 50% of the garbage material can be recycled but people do not pay

in 2014 the United Nation’s refugee agency reported that the number of society forced to escape their houses across the global had outstripped 50 million their times since the World War II Crisis. The leader of Salvation Army territorial Ollie and his wife were listening to the report about refugee on the radio then they decided that they wanted see the refugee. Next Monday the local newspaper ran a story saying The Salvation Army was receiving donations of clothes for refugees, even though Christine did not ask for that. She and Ollie only found out when a TV station phoned to ask how the clothing appeal was going. That was first they heard, they said “we felt this was God’s way of saying to use that we must care about the refugees.

the united states, the salvation army served as being one of the greatest nonprofit organizations to aid in food, clothing, and shelter for those who were in need throughout all of America. “Today, the Salvation Army still operates in more than 75 countries around the globe. Including more added hospitals, donation centers, disaster services, rehabilitation centers, community centers, and thousands of voluntary contributions centers not only in America but throughout the world” (History.com, 2012). The Salvation Army prides in providing millions of families that are less fortunate with essentials that everyday middle class families take for granted. In addition, this action allows middle class people within their own community to open their hearts and give what they can, be little or nothing; would create a gigantic difference to those who are less fortunate. Throughout the centuries, the Salvation Army continues to a successful organization because they have the ability to provide a helping hand to everyone that is in need. The Salvation Army creates a gateway to wholehearted people who desire to help others less fortunate. The

The Salvation Army is the largest Christian denomination church and has been held in Australia since 1880. It is also an international charitable organization that has great services such as:

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Running Head: DOLLAR GENERAL 1Dollar General StrategiesGlenda ReeseManagerial Marketing BUS 620Professor Mary WrightJuly 8, 2012

First, I appreciate the Kiwanis Thrift Shop because of the cheap and quality goods that you sell. This helps people who cannot afford to shop at expensive retail stores as well as others who just like to go thrift shopping. All the proceeds of the store is donated to help families

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Home Depot 's target market is individual homeowners/small contractors. Even though the traditional ideology is that cost leadership and product differentiation business strategies are mutually exclusive, Home Depot was successful at using a combination strategy. First, Home Depot optimized the cost leadership strategy by offering low and competitive prices to its customers by emphasizing higher sales volumes with lower margins, while instituting a high inventory turnover. Home Depot successfully offered a warehouse product strategy to the individual consumer for the first time. Previously, this type of price discounting was only available to professional contractors who earned product price

A large portion of goodwill industries finance is donated items from retail stores. The community’s generous donations of household items and clothing provide the store’s merchandise. Such donations are critical to goodwill industries mission of Colorado Springs, both donating and shopping in their stores,

I raised money for scholarships to camp; helping hundreds of kids come to camp that would be unable to afford it otherwise. Development of a diverse staff was important to me. So I recruited, interviewed and hired central city staff to be part of camp. This involved going to their neighborhood for interviews because they had no means of getting to camp.

Canadian Tire has also agreed to have an extra dollar option added to transactions. The extra dollar will come from cashiers asking the costumers if they would like to donate a dollar for social responsibility. This will bring in extra money for the initiative making it easier for the project to have more funds to start the renovations on houses that are in desperate need of renovations. The funds for this project will be held in a local bank with the lowest fees for month no maximize profits. The recycled wood will be used first; the other profits will be used to buy the supplies needed to finish the projects. The initiative will always accept building supplies to help with the repair costs. Bins will be out just outside the exits of the store to encourage any other donations. The more donations that go towards the initiative will benefit greatly. The less money that has to be used the better so more people can be helped. The goal for the initiative is to stretch the money as much as possible. The initiative will always be looking to fulfill the mission of the initiative.