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Glasgow isn't really the place these days for a tonne of board games in its charity shops. If you head out into smaller towns you may find ones run by a different style of management.

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Having volunteered in a few charity shops over the years most are geared towards profit. If the manager doesn't think it will sell then it doesn't go on the shelves. And from experience they only think Women's clothes and accessories fit that category.

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In the distribution centre there's whole bins full of board games. Those unfortunately don't make it to the shop shelves, nor can customers buy anything from these bins directly as per policy (managers have to direct what's going to be sold first before it can go onto the floor).

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There's so much in those distribution centres which customers will never see. Nowadays when you go into charity shops their stock is pretty limited, but its not like people have stopped donated things you would have seen a decade ago. Those items just don't fit into the profit margins the people running the shops are working under.

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...So if you're wondering why you see less board games, tat you'd see on your Grandparent's shelves and well anything which goes against the shop looking like a smaller TJ MAXX or Ikea, its that its all being donated then put into a skip before ever seeing a store shelf. ¬¬