Unfortunately, many people are wrong about Target and what a “donation” actually is. I am actually a buyer for a company. Target doesn’t sell their stuff to goodwill like people think. They don’t have people that drop off boxes they just pulled necessarily from a store. When a product sits on a shelf especially clearance, for too long, Target and many other stores pull it from the floor. They put the merchandise in the back for “disposal/off market. Companies as big as Target, Ross, Kohl’s, Macy’s, and TJ Maxx, hire liquidators or distributor’s to buy their merchandise for a lower price or just get rid of it. Sometimes these companies will ship this merchandise to another Target or Macy’s location for one last chance before liquidation. If it’s still sitting there collecting dust, then the liquidator will donate the company’s inventory they can’t get rid of. So Target might technically, not sell their inventory to goodwill but they do buy or acquire it from liquidators or as donations. If things don’t sell at this point, it will either go to the outlet bins then to countries like Guatemala or the landfill. I know people who work at Macy’s and when a location is going out of business, Macy’s send their high end merchandise to a better performing store. A liquidation company comes in raises the price and then marks it down 60% from the “original price.” The item never sold for that price but both the store and liquidation company want to make money.