Another great insight about the Great Recovery following the Great Recession is that thrift shop sales are up. Imagine! The volume of goods contributed is not increasing, but the quality, according to various accounts, is declining. That is reportedly due to people trying to get some money from their good stuff. Furniture is a particularly good seller. The Hendersonville Times-News reports one thrift shop sold a distressed oak table after lowering the price from $215 to $50. (Don’t you like the color added by this example?) Thrift shop gurus attribute double-digit increases in sales in recent years to unavailability of loose credit.