Savers 934835 208703243 2008-04-28T06:51:51Z Eco84 1445511 {{POV|date=December 2007}} ''For Digimon Savers, see [[Digimon Data Squad]]'' {{Infobox_Company | company_name = Savers, Inc. | company_logo = <!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:logo Savers.GIF]] --><br><!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:main logo1.gif]] --><br><!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:main logo0.gif]] -->| company_type = [[Thrift store]] | foundation = [[1954]] [[San Francisco, California]] | location = [[Bellevue, Washington]] | industry = [[Retail]]| products = Second hand clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, electronics, toys, and housewares. | homepage = http://www.savers.com | }} [[Image:Value Village TO.jpg|thumb|Value Village in Toronto, Ontario.]] '''Savers, Inc.''' headquartered in [[Bellevue, Washington]], is a privately held for-profit [[thrift store]] chain offering [[secondhand]] shopping. An international company, Savers has more than 200 locations throughout the [[United States]], [[Canada]] and [[Australia]], and receives its merchandise by paying cash to [[non-profit]] organizations for donated clothing and household items. Savers is known as '''Value Village''' in the [[Pacific Northwest]] and Canada, and '''Village des Valeurs''' in [[Quebec]]. In Australia and other regions of the United States, the stores share the corporation's name. ==Business== Under Savers’s business model, the company partners with local non-profits by purchasing and reselling donated items. The non-profits collect and deliver donated goods to Savers, which pays them for the items at a bulk rate regardless of whether they ever make it to the sales floor. Donations are also collected at stores directly, and the company makes payments to its non-profit partners when it receives goods this way. Savers has more than 160 non-profit partners throughout the United States, Canada and Australia, which it pays more than $117 million annually. Reusable items are displayed for purchase in stores, while unsuitable items are shipped to [[developing countries]] and material wholesalers for recycling. As nearly half of all donations are unsuitable for retail sale, roughly 262 million pounds of clothing, shoes, toys, books and other items are sold and shipped to developing countries each year. Items that are shipped to developing countries are sold at local markets or shredded and recycled into rags. ==Trivia== {{Trivia|date=March 2008}} *The cover of the [[Die Mannequin]] album ''Slaughter Daughter'' contains two porcelain cats, one of which has a price tag from Value Village on it. ==References== <References/> ==External links== *[http://www.savers.com/ Savers's Web site] *[http://www.valuevillage.com/ Value Village's Web site] *[http://www.villagedesvaleurs.com/main/interim.html Village des Valeurs's Web site] [[Category:Multinational companies]] [[Category:Retail companies of the United States]] [[Category:Companies based in Bellevue, Washington]]