Let's look at this from a realistic viewpoint. What if they lost their spouse? I'm sure they wouldn't run out and marry the next thing coming just to enter a consignment sale! Or maybe they would!

This is an unfair yet common practice of the Kids Exchange and I thank you for posting so that everyone can be aware of their biased business practices. I received the same lack of professionalism in 2006 from Amy Winstead and was not allowed to shop as a single mother with a guest (yes, Grandma) after waiting several hours in line. I wasn't even offered to uphold a reason (husband deceased, divorced, etc.). They simply didn't care and Amy stated, "This is our policy, you have to be married!" Well, let me tell you that there were couples that were allowed to enter that day, but many of them were not married. After words were exchanged on both ends, eventually we were let in when one of the family members recognized me as a dedicated Super Volunteer for NUMEROUS years.

Yes, this is the reason that I stopped volunteering with the Kids Exchange as a Super Volunteer. To believe I even traveled from Charlotte (read about it in the Newspaper here today) to participate was amazing and to be treated this way was appalling. Thank you for taking a stand and sharing your experience with all of us! Always stand up for what you believe and know that EVERYONE deserves to be treated fairly!

I have been a Super Volunteer/Work Exchanger for 2+ years, and a loyal customer. I feel as though their "policies" are out of place, and biased towards one family structure. I think each volunteer should be able to have one guest (with no restrictions) OR No guests-for any volunteer; you shop only if you volunteer.

I am a mother, who is currently going through a divorce. I have asked if "Grandma" could come with me to shop and they have given me the same speech re: "spouses only."

This year will be my last year of volunteering. While I was shopping on Wednesday, Jan. 22, I talked with a shopper who was buying for a Preschool!! (I want the children at the Preschool to have their needed equipment…but, it should be bought during the public sale!!)

Seems unfair- and Totally Contradictory to their "policy"- to let the Preschool TEAM of shoppers (I then observed, and saw 4+ folks shopping for this preschool)shop for a GROUP of children, than are not theirs!!

Yet, partners, and Grandmas are unable to shop for their own child/grandchild.

I have been told by those that "run" the Kids exchange, that their "policy" is intended to "protect" the volunteer and spouse from having to compete-shop with a volunteer who brings a friend, who will then shop for her children. Or a volunteer who brings a grandma who will shop for her 8 grandkids. Yet, the Preschool was shopping…for lots of kids that are not theirs.

I can not cooperate with unjust practices. Therefore, I will no volunteer in future years and I plan to write a formal letter of complaint to the Kids Exchange.