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More like the second best stuff will get auctioned, the store owners will probably take whatever they want to keep for themselves first, before it even has time to be accounted for. Why bother paying for a $500 dress they can definitely afford when one just appeared right in front of them for free.
Many of them probably still continue to work at Goodwill for subminimum wage. >

Goodwill not displaying goodwill. >

And they sell all the best stuff at auction, and the stuff they do let onto the sales floor gets snapped up by scalpers the second the doors open.