Something I Already Know.

While doing community service at the Good Will in my home town I learned the process of how clothing is sorted, organized, put out on to the floor and finally what happens to the clothing after being pulled.  Clothes start off in the bag hat donators bring them in. The bags are put immediately into large blue bins and placed at three work stations. Typically two people are at one station working as a team. One sorts through the bags putting non-clothing items into a grocery store buggy. When looking clothing you are searching for certain imperfections such as, extreme fading, holes, stains. If the article of clothing has any of these imperfections it is put into another bin which is considered ‘discard’. Clothing passing inspection is then given to the second person . The second person then sizes the piece of clothing according to a specific sizing chart. After the piece has it’s size label it is given a clothing hanger and put on a rack. The second person keeps up with how many pieces are on the portable clothing rack. When the number of pieces reaches fifty they roll the rack out onto the floor after marking it down in the record book. The people who are working on the floor then work together to get the pieces of clothing out on the racks to be sold. They have to work quickly, being mindful of the customers walking around.