Fired for Now: Getting fired, laid off, and hired again

Last weekend I wrote about a casual mention broadcast by CBC that Value Village was owned by Walmart. It was news that took me by surprise me so I did my own research. I didn’t turn up any link between Value Village, Savers (the U.S. for-profit company that owns Value Village) and Walmart.

However, I did contact CBC directly and yesterday I received a reply. Here’s what I was told when I asked about the claim they’d made:

That was our mistake. The episode you heard was a repeat and after it … Continue Reading

Fabulously Thrifty

I was minding my own house-cleaning business today with the radio on in the background, CBC to be exact (which Canadians will understand), when I heard a factoid that stopped me in my tracks.

Value Village is owned by Walmart?

WTF?

It was just a throw-away mention so I had to get to the bottom of this. I started snooping around on the net. That’s when I learned that Value Village is the Canadian division of the second-hand American retail chain Savers. Uh oh, this is sounding … Continue Reading