This place is a gem! Way bigger than it looks from the outside. You have to do a bit more digging and the layout isn't quite as intuitive as the Davis sq and Allston locations but there are some amazing pieces here. Probably the best selection I've seen in any of the Boston area Goodwill's. read more

I'm early and my friend is running late for lunch so I pop in here to see how things are doing. It's a busy week with students returning, so it's a chaotic scene. I am down by the plates and coffee mugs when a large man on his way to the books inhales deeply and spits out a massive amount of brown tinted phlegm all over the floor and anything in his path. He wipes his chin with the back of his hand, gives me the hairy eye ball and keeps on going towards the books. I know customers can spit whenever they want to in any store in any city, but it kind of ruined my attempt at feeling better about shopping at this particular place. read more

Random montage of clothing, junk, and people. A couple of hip kids, a lot of working-poor families, and at least 2 conflicting insane people at any one time make this an interesting place to be. Every once in a while I'll find a shirt or spatula or something to keep me coming back but really, the heydey of thrift shopping is over, as people are selling, rather than donating, their really good stuff to higher-end consignment shops. And I can't really blame them, but it is a shame to see a nice pair of Cole-Haan's on an otherwise naked man running down Mass Ave with a tinfoil hat. read more

This concludes my last attempt at a Goodwill Store. I love thrift shopping, but this just isn't for me. I can't shop alongside people who really are scraping by and need Goodwill to help them out. I feel so guilty. Didn't help that when I left the store after a few minutes, a lady shouted, "Don't come back here!!" Can you believe that??? Business is business, lady. I guess they don't want "my kind" there, so no worries, I won't. Goodwill Industries still rocks, though! read more

I have occasionally found some clothes or records here, but this store pales in comparison to the Davis Square location. The Davis store has better prices, better selection, and an awesome downstairs filled with housewares and electronics. Edited 3/26/08: You can forget what I said about the Davis Square Goodwill. Due to a management change, expect higher prices and less stock. Still worth checking out from time to time, but not what it used to be. read more

I love this Goodwill. I go in regularly. It's a tough job and the staff can be cranky and have seen IT ALL! If you are friendly, they usually reciprocate. I have found some true treasures and designer clothes, a terrific leather bag for $3 that I LOVE. Definitely have to check that zippers work, all buttons accounted for, seams sewn. Plenty of stained, holey junk, too. read more

I like this Goodwill store, but every visit varies from "pleasant" to "freaking annoying". Some of the staff are consistently friendly and helpful. A fellow with the use of one arm for example (sorry, I don't know his name) is a real "plus" for this store, a good worker and nice person, as are a few others. Some staff though are useless. They yak with each other non-stop, oblivious to customers, or they have no time for you. The other day I asked a woman for help, she said "YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT A MINUTE!!!! as she sailed past me into a back room. I waited and when she came back, she walked right past me again, not a word. I then went to another employee who did attempt to help me. A set of china had been broken up, priced as two lots, and I wondered why. She told me that another customer had asked her the very same thing - and then went to help someone else. Hello??????? Equally annoying are some of the customers. Why the heck should there be a line of customers at the register, stretching to the back of the store, because a woman with fifty million things in her cart wants to put them onto the counter one at a time and haggle over the prices like she was at a fish market in her native tropical paradise home, putting some things into a "keep" pile, only to change her mind again after they're rung up? This is nuts! Tell her to make up her mind BEFORE she gets in line or leave! Employees though are apparently instructed to say nothing. God forbid they should offend clueless or inconsiderate people. read more

Not my favorite thrift store in the area, but Cambridge is low on the thriftometer so I guess something is better than nothing. They pretty much have only clothes here, very little in the way of housewares and knicknacks. It is also a pretty cramped space so it's a better experience when you don't have to try to squeeze by someone while not burying your face in musty cotton. I've found very little of interest here but it's a convenient location so I keep trying from time to time. read more

Not the best Good Will (the Porter one is superior) but I have found some great blazers here that I continue to wear and have people ask me where I got them. read more

This Goodwill is your typical thrift store. Sometimes there's good stuff, sometimes there isn't. I only shop for clothes, and they have a pretty decent selection. The flat-rate pricing makes shopping a little more hit and miss here than other places--e.g. $5 can be way too much for some of the crap shoes they have there, but when I saw a pair of Chanel pumps last time it was too good to be true. read more

Nice staff people. That said, I have issues with this store. 1. Some staff people don't enforce store policy. Certain people LOVE to cut line at the registers for example, and clerks (some) will say nothing. 2. Aisles are narrow in places, and often completely blocked by S-L-O-W shoppers with large shopping carts, using them like barricades, to keep others from looking at what they're looking at, while they take 20 minutes to decide if they really want that wooden spoon. 3. There's the usual bunch of grabby, thoughtless shoppers who throw merchandise all over the place while "browsing", making things difficult for staff and other shoppers. 4. Some shoppers will go to the checkout counter with a gazillion items, and have to "think" about each one before buying. Then, after their items have been rung up, they'll change their minds. Or haggle over the price. Or send their kid back to housewares to get "the red coffee cup" that they passed over 30 minutes ago. And the line waits... 5. Sometimes short staffed, with a register line that goes WAAAY back into the store. Okay, you'll note that a lot of these complaints concern bad customers. To be fair, staff isn't responsible for their bad manners, but these folks can make shopping at this store an unpleasant experience. Nothing like struggling to get past 3 shopping carts in a narrow aisle, only to have someone grab what you're looking at out of your hands because they "saw it first". And to be fair again, the same bad behavior can be seen in posh stores too. I do like the staff people here, have found many good buys, and will continue to shop at this Goodwill. Just wish the aisles were larger, shopping carts smaller, and some of the customers, well, you know. read more

Although it is a relatively small Goodwill, I found a French Connection dress, a Marc Jacob's sweater, a Clever Crayon dress and a Miss Sixty jeans. I am very pleased with my purchase :-) This Goodwill totally made my day!! read more

Far and away my favorite thrift store in/around the city. You've got to do some digging, but there are some serious treasures to be found in the basement. I've spent many an afternoon rifling through their junk, just watch out for hypodermic needles in the bins and that grumpy guy who works there, not sure which is more dangerous... read more

I frequent the Davis Square location. I wouldn't know the first thing about the clothes there, but I have added to my monsterous monster movie collection from here numerous times. Good place to find old VHS movies looking for a home, cheap. read more

Great place to unload your end of school year stuff that you don't use anymore - also ok selection for clothing, but a bit unorganized

Shockingly good selection and great service. It's a bit more hard core in terms of the rules than the Davis Square location, but I had a much superior experience overall. read more

I agree with a couple of the other posters. The Davis Sq. location is a little better than this one. This one is okay too though. They just don't have the downstairs electronics/appliances section. I think this location, however, does have a better selection of clothing. You really have to look though. read more

The Goodwill Store - Used, Vintage & Consignment Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Good strore and I like the employees. Not the cheapest thrift store around but it is big and gets some good stuff.

Nothing bad. Nothing special. One suggestion: check the CDs you are selling since many of them have either no CDs or the wrong CDs in their cases. read more

Limited assortment for males (most Thrift Stores seem to this way), but found a sweet Vintage Pinky and The Brain T-Shirt.

I start shopping in this location recently on the weekends. If you lucky, maybe you can find there Marc Jacobs, Tori Burch and etc. BUT, I noticed and Its really not FAIR to other customers who coming to look for a bargain or to buy some nice stuff, that employee putting aside a really good stuff( designers shoes,bags and clothing) for one man, who is coming almost every weekend. He has a privilege to dig through the bins of shoes or bags before they are on the shelves and I saw, he grabbed Tori Burch and others brands( in nearly new condition). He is standing at the counter after and checking Ebay or other sites. Employees are giving him baskets from the back room with good and valuable stuff. Really really UNFAIR. I wanted to contact store manager or HQ for that. This is my negative feedback. If you want to do that make sure is unnoticeable for others. Otherwise, its really impossible to find something good ( no holes or stains or broken). read more

So I like to make excursion into charity shops now and then. When I used to work in Central Square I used to come here during my lunch. You can find an amazing assortment of second hand clothes, I found an almost brand new Brooks Brothers cashmere sweaters (I can tell by the label), a multi-coloured panel RL oxford with tags, and a bounty of vintage Abercrombie, pre 90s. This place is packed full of cast offs from the old money of Cambridge, it is well worth a trip. read more

it used to be a great store.... but the new managment is extra smart....... everything is very expensive now....and no courtesy for the customers..either... staff is rude and always lost in something..... the old manager was really nice and even though the place was a mess it was good...... thumbs way down into the ground..... read more

Surprisingly clean, large inventory, and there were some quality items. Nicer than I expected in every way, and definitely a notch above Salvation Army stores. read more

I think it is sad when people show their ignorance and think it is funny. When you need to call people names and refer to people as "retarded", as in the previous review by Oprah W. is totally unacceptable. Goodwill trains people with disabilities and employment barriers so that they can find work. They are a non profit and the sales of the goods goes to such training. Yes people with disabilities work there but that is what Goodwill does. read more

This locale's prices are outrageous. I thought I struck it good in finding this cute and very used bag. They had the audacity to try and charge me $20 for this bag? I can purchase myself a brand new one for that price. I honestly dont favor their policy of assigning prices to items that dont have prices attached to them. This leaves room for the associates to conjure up prices at random and unfortunately sometimes according to whom they believe can pay "certain" prices. Dont waste your time in here. Its filthy in the back (houseware) and the deals arent that outstanding for the condition of the clothes. Shirts on average are 5 bucks which isnt bad and the coats now are 10 bucks. Those are the only primary steals. Other than that this not how a Goodwill should conduct themselves. read more

People at corporate level have no respect for each other and teamwork spirit is un-existing.