Looks like the poor review here probably reflects what I feel already. They have lost my business for life.
I do not like this location, and for some reason they can't get it together even though nearly every other Goodwill has made serious efforts to re-organize. This location is so unorganized and dirty.
-I don't think anyone ever sweeps or mops.
-Maternity shirts, pants, and dresses are mixed in with regular items.
-Leggings, activewear, pajamas, cuordoroys, and dress pants are all considered "pants" separate from the "jeans" section.
But my REAL complaint is this. Because I was overwhelmed and wanted to just find something, I looked in the T-shirt section. Shouldn't find any other weird stuff mixed in, right? There is one section for shirts with short sleeves with a "$5.99" sign. I look through, find some stuff, try it on. I settle on 3 shirts and go to check out. The first one the lady says "$5.99". The second one, she says "$2.99". The third one she says "$10.99." "Wait, wait," I say, and tell her "That was in that same section" "Well, it's Calvin Klein..." I tell her oh, great, well that doesn't matter to me and I'm not going to pay $11 for a used t-shirt. I pay and leave and I'm a little unsettled.
I turn around and walk in and ask if there is a manager. The cashier calls the manager on the phone and asks her to come down, but then goes upstairs. I see her walking down the stairwell with the manager and they stop and have a conversation mid-way down. So finally she comes out and I say "So, she gave you a bit of a rundown?" and she says "Yes, sort of." So I tell her , for starters, that it was on a rack that says $5.99, to which she replies "That's the 'starting price'. Really? So then how did my other shirt cost $2.99? Also, she says, "It's Calvin Klein". Does this lady know that Calvin Klein isn't Gucci? Calvin Klein is a fairly generic brand these days. And a grey striped cotton t-shirt that's USED on a $5.99 rack shouldn't stray from that.
I am also a manager. I don't automatically forgive my branch's organizational faults and defend my "company policy" even though no other Goodwill I have been to lately has acted this way. I asked her if she would pay $11 for a t-shirt like this and she said "If it was my size. It's Calvin Klein." Hmm... well. With an average minimum wage of $10/hr, this used t-shirt at a thrift store in a country town is more than an hours wage?
There was no give. I tried to tell her that this shirt would go on sale because it wasn't going to be purchased at that price, and if she sold it to me for $5.99 she would make more money than it going on sale...but no budge. I would have been happy if she bargained to 8! To be honest, at this point I was just expending energy because she was being a "no"-man. She was not co-operating with her customers. I don't think she has built up a strong defense to a criminal, cheap, low-balling populace here, so I wasn't sure why she was being so disagreeable. She was simply not accepting that her store is disorganized and that I was unhappy because of it.
Because of that disorganization, her customers are angry. I thought I was buying a $5.99 shirt but SURPRISE at the register it's 2x more expensive. I suggest that corporate go check out what other Goodwills look like, see how much cleaner they are, spend some time making new sections for activewear, maternity, pajamas, and higher priced items; sweep and mop, and also train their managers on how to make customers happy instead of arguing with them.
Like I said, they lost my business for life. At this point I don't care what they stand for, because they can say they have interest in "good will" and helping others, but they certainly didn't care about my positive experience. read more