{"id":1617,"date":"2010-05-07T16:52:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T21:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/framingham.com\/news\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2010-05-08T03:58:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T08:58:50","slug":"savers-thrift-store-to-open-in-former-compusa-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2010\/05\/07\/business\/savers-thrift-store-to-open-in-former-compusa-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Savers Thrift Store to Open in Former CompUSA Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1821\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/savers-store-int.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1821\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1821\" title=\"Savers thrift store opening in Framingham, MA\" src=\"http:\/\/framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/savers-store-int-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"PHOTO - Savers thrift store, Framingham, MA\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/savers-store-int-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/savers-store-int.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-1821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Savers Thrift Store looking to hire (50) employees for it&#39;s newest store opening in former CompUSA location, Rt. 30, Framingham, MA. <\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA - <\/strong>Savers Thrift Store chain will be opening a new store in Framingham in the former CompUSA building at 500 Cochituate Road, <em>(Rt. 30 west, after Masspike Exit 13 off-ramp). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Representatives from Savers will be interviewing and<strong> hiring to fill (50) positions<\/strong> Monday through Friday, <strong>May 10-14<\/strong>, 2010.  Available part-time and full-time positions include; customer service, sales, back-room inventory production and other entry-level retail positions. Applicants must apply in person between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.  <strong>Interviews are being held at the Hampton Inn at 319 Speen St. in Natick.<\/strong><em> <\/em><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Framingham Savers thrift store will be the 10th one the Seatle, WA based company has opened in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Store inventory items are purchased in bulk from local non-profits --\u00a0 like when you get a call from Big Brother\/Big Sister or a Veterans' organization calling and asking; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>\"<\/em><\/span><em>Do you have any clothes or household items you can donate?\"<\/em>, then offers to send a truck to pick up the items from you -- or tells you to leave bags outside on a certain day.\u00a0 These are the types of operations that Savers uses to obtain inventory.<\/p>\n<p>According to company info, Savers stores each stock roughly 100,000 used items on any given day, with 5,000 new (<em>used<\/em>) items arriving daily.\u00a0 Back-room production workers sort and tag the best items for sale in the thrift stores while other items are either shipped to developing countries or sent to recycling centers.<\/p>\n<p>The stores are setup into <em>departments<\/em> displaying used clothing, shoes, kitchenware, books, electronics, toys and infant goods, sporting goods, home d\u00e9cor, furniture and accessories.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about the company, visit their website at: www.savers.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; Savers Thrift Store chain will be opening a new store in Framingham in the former CompUSA building at 500 Cochituate Road, (Rt. 30 west, after Masspike Exit 13 off-ramp). Representatives from Savers will be interviewing and hiring to fill (50) positions Monday through Friday, May 10-14, 2010. Available part-time and full-time positions include; customer&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2010\/05\/07\/business\/savers-thrift-store-to-open-in-former-compusa-location\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[845,846,27,847,842,843,844],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-charity","tag-clothes","tag-donate","tag-jobs","tag-second-hand","tag-thrift-store","tag-used"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}