Writer complains of ‘book gang’ terrorizing Goodwill outlet

The Amazon seller’s board tipped me off to this blog post on LiveJournal. The writer claims that a gang is hoarding books and assaulting shoppers at Goodwill Outlet stores in Seattle and Everett, Wash., and that Goodwill isn’t doing anything about it. The writer is anonymous, but there are so many details you wonder if it’s for real:

… an Amazon.com seller located in Portland, Oregon, has been daily monopolizing and loitering at the Goodwill Outlet stores in Seattle and Everett. They have assaulted and threatened me and other people. In 2010 the gang caused many violent incidents and there were multiple police calls due to them. Their “shopping technique” is referred to as “hoarding” or “scooping”. They aggressively grab and hoard books (about 80 percent of everything), taking as much of the newly set out offerings as possible, filling up their personal bins as quickly as possible, in order to prevent other customers from buying anything of value before them. The gang wants to scan the barcodes to decide which items to buy, but doesn’t want anyone else to get them first. When hoarding the books, they shove and hit people with books they throw, but they have also committed more serious assaults, and have verbally threatened people. They show up en masse in order to monopolize the stores. It is obvious to any normal person that this behavior is abusive, but apparently not to the Seattle Goodwill management. The fundamental problem is Seattle Goodwill itself. They are permitting this group to do what they are doing.

Read more: Live Journal.

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