Donation boxes cropped up in parking lots of Columbus grocery stores. Town Manager Johathan Kanipe was of the opinion the boxes had to be removed because they are not properly licensed, and the owners don’t have permission from the property owners to use their space.
Signs on the boxes claimed they were the property of a for-profit clothing recycler that gives a “fixed annual payment” to Hope House. Hope House appears, for the time being, anyway, to be a bogus charity.
Rachel Ramsey, executive director of a legitimate local charity, claimed the boxes were unfair:
“When people who have no connection with the area bring in this type of for-profit business, they are taking things that rightfully belong to the thrift stores here.”
