The St. Charles Salvation Army is my favorite store for thrifting. The merchandise is awesome but so is the staff! Shout out to Heather, Jackie, and Jesus for providing excellent customer service! The employees who work hard putting out stock are also to be commended for always being helpful and friendly! I have never had a bad experience here.......I love this store! (most items in my picture are from Salvation Army!!! read more

Salvation Army - My 2022 front porch decorated with all my finds from the St. Charles Illinois Salvation Army. This store is my all time favorite! - Thrift Stores Near Me - St. Charles, Illinois

Very good place to shop every thing is reasonable price customer service good and manager Jackie is awesome

I recently bought a looks like brand new Cole Hahn purse with leather like buttah and beautiful brass hardware for $6.99 and went home to find a very comparable one for $300 on their website. I find so many quality items there, you just gave to look for them. read more

This used to be a good place, but over the last year they have gotten out of control with their prices! Way overpriced for their items and dont carry near the inventory they used to.No longer good deals to find. You can get new items on sale in a store for same price! read more

Hello! I am the first person to review St. Charles Salvation Army. I set up their account just to review them. I also want to point out that we will call their Corporatate HR office because the way we were treated in that store was HORRIBLE and one of the worst ways I was treated in any store. We have been shopping at the Montgomery/Aurora Location for 20 years. We are vendors and we buy clothing and shoes all the time. St. Charles have just opened late 2015. We were so excited because we finally have another Salvation Army to shop to! I LOVE my Montgomery location and everyone there we know personally because we talk to them all the time! St. Charles was the same way! The "first" round of employees we loved them so much! First day we went and talked to all of them and got to know them! Now we do this not only because we are friendly, but because we buy so much stuff and shop every week we let them know why and what we are about! Now St. Charles just opened in October...and somehow I have never seen so many people LEFT that location so fast and replaced by...well JERKS! That first round of people left by December. It was replaced by a very rude woman...but she left in less then a month. Then management was replaced by another woman which was fine and we were shopping and buying many things every week. YESTURDAY - February 20, 2016 -- We went to shop for our usual stuff. We saw a new woman. Let me describe her. We didnt approach or talk to her right away because we wanted to see who is this first. This woman is white, around 28-30. Dark Black or Brown hair and over weight. In Salvation Army, one mostly wears a red polo or shirt as a uniform. Nope, she had a tank top on with her breast hanging out. We were in the store shopping and we can hear her loudly talking on her phone yelling at her boyfriend and talking about personal business. Since we buy a lot we always ask for a deal. We always get some sort of deal too because we buy a lot of stuff. We already knew it was going to be bad when there were two bikes. One was 5.00 and one was 6.00. We asked her if we can buy both bikes for 5.00 She was SO RUDE and yelled as us and said WE ARE NOT GOODWILL! NO! Okay...now its going to get bad. The bike thing, we rubbed that off. We bought 2 shopping carts of shoes. We placed the shoes on the belt with this woman as a cashier. She grabbed our shoes and lazily and hard and threw them into the bag with no care at all. We are NOT picky but her body language showed she didn't want to sell to us. We asked her to please not throw our shoes. She didn't respond or listen and we asked her again and she was so angry! This heiffer went crazy in a second! She said, "I AM NOT THROWING YOUR SHOES! YOU KNOW WHAT! I AM NOT GOING TO SELL YOU AGAIN! YOU ARE THROWING THE SHOES AT ME!" We said we are only putting the shoes on the belt. She said, "IF YOU DON'T LEAVE ME STORE RIGHT NOW I AM CALLING THE COPS! GET THE F**K OUT OF MY STORE NOW!" She threw everything back into the car and pulled the two carts away and angrily pretend to put those shoes back on the shelf. We just stood there in Awe. In all the years we been shopping at Salvation Army (and we have visited every location in the Chicago Land Area) something is wrong with this St. Charles one. The shelves are empty, most employees are very lazy, the first round of employees who we liked left, and I don't know who this new person is or who made her into a manager but she is very trashy and very rude. For a store that is a religious charity the way she acted towards us was very unprofessional and un christian like. read more

The store was nice, clean, and well kept. While we were getting ready to leave near closing time, a different customer asked if her daughter could get into a fitting room to try on a shirt. The employee she asked barked at her, "I guess, if you can do it in three minutes. What, are you new here?!" We were all taken aback. The other employees were nice enough, but she was very rude and unprofessional. read more

Worst manager in the place. I have heard nothing but bad remarks. She has blond hair. She is rude and talks snooty to customers. I wont be donating my things to this overpriced location in St. Charles anymore either. read more

Rosa who claimed to be the store manager refused to sell me items on sale claiming that the price tag was changed! Very RUDE!!

An infinite selection of clothing, mostly organized by color and by what it is. Unfortunately no category for the floral short-alls I so crave. Best of all, no Goodwill funk. What is that smell? Maybe it's years of accumulated drier sheets and fabric softeners. At any rate, it hasn't seeped in here yet. Maybe because the store is pretty new. Anyway, it was nice to walk out of the store and not smell "Goodwill" in my hair until I can't stand it anymore and need to shower. Yes, that happens to me and it's why I can't go there anymore. Anyway, It was awkward when I went here because the changing rooms are there but they're not finished. Get it together, Sally Army. I literally locked the door by sticking a hanger in it like I saw the lady in the changing room next to me do. And you needed a big hanger, so only one of mine wedged the door closed enough for me to not feel weird about it. Also there's like a 2-inch hole all the way around where I'm guessing the real lock will go in the future. I should also mention- the other two changing rooms? One had buckets of paint in it, and the other had a Shop-Vac with a pile of crap or something. The floors were all dusty and stuff and may or may not have had wood or paint chips. When you're a giant clothes store you should probably have changing rooms. I went in them only because I'm a free spirit and don't care if some gross old dude sees my butt through a little hole in the door. I'm fearless, I know. Based on the changing room weirdness this place should get like, 2 stars, but seriously, they have such a huge variety of amazing clothes that I can't give them less than 4. This store will be amazing when they get it together. Come on guys. Put locks on the doors. You can do it. I need to buy some more shorts. read more

Huge place! Super low prices. Got 3 shirts, one of them a brand new button down (still had tags on) for $8.40

Great selection of quality items and really, really good prices, even for a thrift store. I bought a factory-sealed crate of one quart canning jars, a Banana Republic basic black jacket in perfect shape, a sweater from Macy's, a short-sleeved shirt, and a hardcover Harry Potter book still in the dust jacket, all for just over twelve bucks. Highly recommended! read more

6/6/2016. The store needs to make its prices consistent with its' signs. I purchased a bunch of CD's from a table in the middle of the floor. the sign said all CD's $1.99. When I go to check out the lady at the checkout changed the prices for the CD's that were compilations. NO Fair and charged me double for these CD's while the sign did not state a charge for this kind of CDs. read more