Savers
Good. Sells second-hand or refurbished goods, so it creates no new factory work.
Last researched 2 November 2026 · 3 sources
For-profit thrift chain selling donated second-hand goods.
Savers runs thrift stores that sell mostly second-hand clothes, which avoids most new factory and mining labour.
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Why it's graded Good
Graded on reuse
A business that sells mostly second-hand goods is graded on reuse, not on this checklist. It's Good unless it has red flags, and it doesn't earn stars. Its new stock isn't graded separately.
Red flags 0
None found.
Estimates for its products
Our rules applied to one kind of product at a time, using Savers's evidence and, where it has product lines, that line's countries. They're estimates: we don't know which factory made any single item.
Dresses & skirts, Shirts, Pants & trousers, Jeans, Knitwear, Jackets & coats, T-shirts, Shoes, Bags & backpacks, Kids' clothes: Good, the same as Savers overall, because nothing we know differs between them.
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Evidence
What we found
- It also sells some new stock, made by suppliers it doesn't name.
Research notes Savers is a for-profit thrift chain with 375 stores in July 2026, 18 of them in Australia. Almost all stock is second-hand: it pays charity partners for donated goods, and in-store donation centres and GreenDrop sites supplied 78% of goods processed in 2025. It sources only a small amount of new goods from overseas, without naming countries or factories; its human rights policy says these makers fall under its code of conduct, but it publishes no supplier list or factory audits. Unsold textiles are mostly sold to overseas wholesale buyers. No labour abuses in its supply chain have been reported.
Sources and actions
Sources 3
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- Savers Value Village, Inc. Form 10-K (fiscal 2025) · search the archive · 367 stores (18 in Australia), about 24,000 staff; goods bought from non-profits; minimal new goods sourced overseas; unsold textiles sold on
- Savers Value Village Q2 fiscal 2026 results (Form 8-K, August 2026) · search the archive · 375 stores at 4 July 2026: 185 US, 172 Canada, 18 Australia
- Savers Value Village Human Rights Policy (November 2024) · search the archive · Rates forced and child labour risk in its second-hand supply as very low; new-goods suppliers covered by its code of conduct; EthicsPoint hotline
Company details
- Headquarters
- United States
- Employees
- About 24,000
- Last researched
- 2 November 2026
- Cite this page
- Labour Lens, "Is Savers ethical? Labour rating", https://www.labourlens.net/brand/savers, last researched 2 November 2026, accessed [date].
- Method
- Researched with AI assistance against published rules. How we check · What Good means
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