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The Council Thrift

4.8 (6 reviews)
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Updated 2 months ago

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7 months ago

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10 months ago

Excellent value!!! Friendly staff!!! Clean and organized!! My number one thrift store!!! Highly recommend!!!

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2 years ago

I always find something here! Good quality clothing and lots of bric-a-brac. Prices are usually low.

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3 years ago

Great find! Very organized and good pricing. No fitting room. Will be back as I only wear used.

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2 years ago

Fab!!!! Great sales, awesome dollar rack! Thrift store like they don't make them anymore!

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4.2(16 reviews)
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Urban Renewals is located on American Legion Hwy in a plaza with Popeyes, Rainbow, and more! They…read moreare probably my favorite spot for casual thrifting. Sometimes you can luck out with some really nice finds but of course, with the increase in popularity the last few years, it's much harder. Very affordable thrift spot though! Most items can be found ranging from $1.99-6.99, with some items being exceptions + slightly more in price but I haven't seen anything being more than $20, very rare. I love that they color coordinate all of the clothing. Makes it easy for if I am looking for something in a specific color, for sure. Large parking lot, so plenty of parking here. They keep it pretty organized here, having an entire row for men's sweatshirts, men's pants, women's outerwear/suits, women's tops, women's pants, & children's. **CASH ONLY! Remember to have cash with you if you plan to go here. They have an atm im pretty sure but much better to just have cash with you.

This was my first time visiting this thrift shop, and I was really impressed with how large and…read morewell-organized the store was. When you walk in, there's a sign clearly showing the colors of the week that are 50% off, which is a great way to save even more. The store was clean, everything was nicely put together, and the different sections were clearly labeled, including baby, women's, men's, and other categories. The items were organized by color rather than size, which was a little different, but everything was still easy to look through. The prices were also extremely reasonable, which is always a huge plus when thrift shopping! One thing to be aware of is that they are cash-only. There is an ATM inside the store, which is convenient, although I wish the employee had mentioned that when I asked if they only accepted cash. There are also other places nearby where you can get cash if needed. Overall, I really enjoyed shopping here. Great selection, reasonable prices, clean and organized, and definitely worth stopping in if you're in the area!

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The Salvation Army Thrift Store & Donation Center

2.2(41 reviews)
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I frequently come here every month or two and find the best stuff!! I've gotten real leather…read morejackets for $20, a faux fur coat in great condition, a $5 vintage beaded jacket, a backpack shaped like a bottle of nail polish, and many other items! There's a lot of older/vintage type clothing here so if you're into that like I am, you can have a lot of fun finding new pieces for your wardrobe. Tip: the jacket area in the men's section can sometimes have women's jackets mixed in, so take a look and don't be too hung up over the labling of sections of the store. Look all over! You can find some real gems here if you are willing to sift through racks upon racks of clothing. Also, make sure to get a rewards card if you come here often!

I'm pretty disappointed to see the donation area left wide open after hours and people trashing…read morethrough donations, stomping through and the side of the building looks like a landfill. It's such a shame because people drop off, hoping their items can help generate money for a community organization that helps so many. It's not very good. Stewardship of people's donated property to let it get trashed and broken and spread out. It's hazardous and a community health issue. I have seen people rummaging through bags left on the donation deck at night and just obliterating mess left for volunteers on Monday. And there's no cleanup in the parking lot! They need to be gated and closed off after hours

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Savers - Where's the lie?

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2.9(92 reviews)
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Benefits Epilepsy; Magazines, books…read moreLots of junk, but you never know what you might find there.

Savers' ($SVV) business model, while legally legitimate, is pretty hard to stomach at a…read morecustomer-facing level. They purchase items in bulk from non-profits up front and pay them a lump sum. Your purchase does not go to charity whatsoever. In fact, following regulatory scrutiny over charitable messaging in the late 2010s, they actually removed any signage suggesting affiliation with the Epilepsy Foundation from stores...Tax avoidance aside, the inventory from an average person like the writer and reader of this review, is completely free. They just pay someone to: sort it, take a very cursory glance at eBay sales history (maybe even just listing price, which are two totally different things), print a price tag that's somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 that sale value, and throw it on a shelf. Fine. This is nothing new really. But, it has gotten pretty egregious over the years and it's hard to not be a little incensed knowing that this inventory is, by and large, gratis. This particular store is jam-packed with people. I had to park in a lot I didn't even know existed, behind the store, at 2PM on a Thursday. The din of hangers screeching against the racks, people walking around talking on their phones as if they were shorting stocks on used Bop-Its at a Bloomberg terminal, and people sitting at the back of the store eating apple slices out of baggies (this was a new one). It's an interesting, if not somewhat sad, vignette of the economic reality for many people right now. Seeing a beat up Nintendo Wii listed for $49.99 in the display case at the front is laughable. For a while now my favorite thing has been to just go to the front to smirk at what they deem high-value enough to put behind the glass. If you're someone who knows beyond the surface level brands, or whatever, you might have had some good luck in the past maybe snagging a Barbour shirt for a couple of bucks. Back then, only the household names would be marked up. Now, I'm pretty sure they look up almost anything. It's become pretty hard to find a good deal. Not to sound greedy, but that's kind of the whole conceit of thrifting, right? If it isn't the profiteering on their end making it difficult to find good deals, it's the torrent of people coming in with flipping in mind. I get it. Flipping is fun. But, half of that stuff you have in your cart is not going to sell. Honestly 80% of it won't and you'll end up hanging onto it out of stubbornness or just eventually returning it from whence it came. Board games are not worth selling, the weight and dimensions alone make the margins maybe a couple of dollars after paying for shipping and handling. Just because that celebrity cookbook sold once for $29.99 in June 2022 doesn't mean it will sell now. Despite that, likely because of TikTok, I see people combing the racks and loading up carts full of Jerry Maguire VHS tapes and old Bing Crosby Christmas records... Not an indictment of flippers, it's more of an indicator of the economy we're in. Where so many people are now willing to squat in the crowded aisles, scanning every book on the shelf hoping to find some obscure first printing of an electrical engineering textbook to list on ThriftBooks. Clearly if people are willing to do that all day, they must need the money, and there's no judgement on that. It's just a shame because it does really thin out the amount of interesting things on the shelves for people wanting to find something purely for their own enjoyment. I've been thrifting for a long time and I still love it, but this particular store always follows me home. I never leave feeling better than when I entered.

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