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    The Alive Exchange

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    Steps to Hope Thrift Barn

    2.7
    (14 reviews)
    45.2 mi

    Great place to find vintage and gently used quality items…read more Super prices on furniture and housewares Always has holiday merchandise as you enter the front door! Pleasant staff and courteous loaders

    I have visited this establishment numerous times. Previously, I would expect to leave the shop…read morehighly satisfied regardless of a purchase. The previous owner ensured a wonderful experience by hiring staff whose behavior demonstrated a strong passion for upholding humility and compassion within themselves, or at least during their shift, cleaning the shop as it was needed, setting any given item's price well below market value even if it is name-brand, and much more that is not mentioned here. The owner I reference was remarkable; someone who displayed the traits that anyone would assume they would notice in an individual operating a store of which it is claimed that all proceeds go toward victims of violence. It is unfortunate how much the current owner has voided the establishment of the values upon which it was built. The current owner, who is a short, older female with brown medium-length hair, lacks kindness and selflessness. Rather, it seems this individual must value economic gain and anything else concerning only what may benefit themselves. It is difficult to assume the same employees who worked for the previous owner also value the same as the current, so I assume the current owner has either strongly encouraged her workers to focus on profits and if bored, acknowledge any feedback from guests; or, she must have hired new staff to make the domestication process much easier, as it would be presumably less difficult to teach certain skills than to alter an individuals' process of thinking, then establish a preferred process of thinking. Additionally, the upkeep of the shop is less than decent: the (what I assume is) hardware section is hoarded to the extent that it would feel claustrophobic likely for any given person, labeling for many collections of items is non-existent, I assume all clothing donations go unwashed due to debris such as mud being left on the clothes, and anything that has been opened and should be labeled as such (i.e., lotion, hand sanitizer, OTC medication) is not labeled as opened. I understand this establishment is a thrift store, and I certainly would not expect perfection or anything similar; my main concern is how the current owner presents herself and attempts to pose the shop, and how the owner and shop are; one being the direct cause of the other's common assignment of negative regard. They are both deficient. Please, do not waste your time at this place. I recommend you donate and make purchases there once it is under completely new staff and management. What a tragedy it is to bear witness to what used to be a classy, reasonably priced, peaceful, and loving place turn into what it is now...

    East Antiques

    East Antiques

    5.0
    (1 review)
    29.3 mi

    I love what Joyce has done with this place!!. She is always changing her displays and bringing in…read morewonderful new finds. There is always tons of new things to see and buy every time I go. And she is so talented! She has made a beautiful antiqued door display and several painted and distressed church pews for me. She is reasonably priced and stocks her store with treasures, and not a bunch of junk. She is located at the very end of the Lavonia Antique Market and you can definitely tell where her store starts and the other part ends. Night and day between her store and the rest of it. Her store is clean and organized. Also, Joyce and her sister are so helpful and friendly, unlike several of the ladies that work in the other part of this location. I will also add that she stays open for the posted store hours and does not close early or start turning off the lights on customers like they do in the other part of this location. I regularly see Joyce and her sister helping and checking out customers from the other location, when they have closed early and left customers still in the store and in the dark. The only reason I go to Lavonia Antique Market anymore is because of East Antiques, and if Joyce ever leaves, I won't go at all.

    From the owner: We are the best thing to happen Lavonia Antique Market in 20 years, I cleaned out the back of the…read morestore and opened the back door and another requester.

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