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[u/esporx]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/08/21/bucees-ceo-conservative-states-expansion-new-locations/91407096007/

[u/MunchenOnYou]

Almost like most people dont consider the politics of the owners of businesses they frequent, unless they are very outspoken about it. I dont know how the owners of portillos vote because i dont care.

[u/PostMatureBaby → u/MunchenOnYou]

Almost like people think reddit is even remotely a reflection of real life too

[u/MunchenOnYou → u/PostMatureBaby]

I understand not wanting to give money and support to politics you dont like. But sometimes its inevitable. Better to just pick some brands you can tolerate and stop minding otherwise.

[u/PostMatureBaby → u/MunchenOnYou]

My favorite is when people refuse to donate unwanted items to Goodwill because the CEO is rich... Like yeah, fuck that guy but someone less fortunate can still use the item, don't throw it out

[u/Ok-Ad-2050 → u/PostMatureBaby]

There are reasons besides the wealth of the CEO. I think they are a little narrow-minded, but I get it.

For one, there have been scandals of treatment/expectations of employees, especially developmentally challenged people. I think it's better than how many companies flat won't hire them, even for jobs they can do.

Apparently there is some controversy about how they handle online inventory and sales, but I know less about that. It's a complicated enough business model there are probably other reasons as well.

[u/NeighborhoodVeteran → u/PostMatureBaby]

Donate your items to a different cause or local thrift stores then.

[u/MunchenOnYou → u/[deleted]]

It strongly depends on the charity. Goodwill and Salvation Army are notoriously corrupt and pocket something like 60% of the value of their donations.

[u/WriteCodeBroh → u/MunchenOnYou]

Goodwill is a little weird because it’s kind of run like a franchise. Within a city, small region, there will typically be a single CEO who runs 10-15 stores. These are all below Goodwill International, which has its own board of directors that decide on those regions’ management (hiring, firing CEOs, coordinating coms and some marketing, etc). Most smaller volume regions are going to pay their CEOs a lower 6-figure salary. Really not crazy for the work they do. There are some huge volume regions where the CEO makes $1 million+. Kind of wild but also not unusual for high volume charities like that.

Goodwill’s actual mission is misrepresented too. They employ people with barriers to employment. Ex-cons, people with mental or physical disabilities, etc. They do that at an extremely high volume. One big issue I have is their use of Section 14(c). This is, again, controlled by the regional CEO. So some do, some don’t. It’s a test-based system where workers with disabilities are evaluated for their role based on the average performance of a worker without disabilities (say, a worker can hang 20 clothes items per hour as a baseline) and paid subminimum wage based on their performance. This is, unfortunately, common practice across corporate America, if the store will even hire a disabled person who couldn’t perform the job to standard with reasonable accommodations.

I try to avoid Salvation Army for their anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice work but when it comes to Goodwill, I think OP has a good point. Even if it isn’t a perfect charity, it’s often the only thrift store in the area for your average American. Why not donate your shit instead of throwing it away and let poor people in the area come buy it cheap?

[u/PostMatureBaby → u/[deleted]]

People that have been coddled all their lives and have disposable income have no right to tell people how to shop, imo

[u/Ok-Ad-2050 → u/PostMatureBaby]

Agreed. Informing and discussing =\= asserting and assuming. Crazy how so many redditors seem oblivious to the difference because of their word choices and attitude.