I currently work at a thrift store. My sole responsibility is to keep a section of the store stocked. One department sorts and prices the donations, I put the items on the sales floor. It's a pretty easy job, despite the customers. The other day my supervisor told me something that has boggled my brain ever since they said it. “Sales in this area are around 90%. Management wants it to be closer to 60%.” We already throw away a lot of product, more than I expected for a store that markets itself as green. I asked why they would wants sales to go down, and he said he didn't know, but that that's the recent feedback he's received from management. Any clue why a store would want their sales to go down?? I'd like to think he was just making shit up, or maybe this is some sort of corporate tactic to decrease taxes. Just searching for possible reasons.