the store is clean and the clerks are friendly. The store is well stocked but whoever does the pricing is, in my opinion, completely insane. I went in looking for rainy day games to take on a family trip. I found several that still had the original Walmart price tag on them (modern games, not antiques) and the Salvation Army price tag was HIGHER THAN THE ORIGINAL PRICE. When I pointed this out to the clerk (I thought it was a mistake or I wasn't reading the smudged price tag correctly) he said to me "oh we must have forgotten to scrape the original tag off" and verified that the much higher Salvation tag was, in fact, the correct price. Seriously, they priced a USED $9 Walmart game at $12. No thank you. If I wanted to pay full price for some cheap Walmart Chinese imports I would go to Walmart to begin with! read more

You never know what you are going to find there. The prices are very reasonable. The store is under new management. The employees are all so nice and helpful. I love shopping there. read more

DO NOT BRING YOUR STUFF HERE! They will leave everyone outside for weeks only to get destroyed and unable to be reused. Take everything to the Rescue mission. They have everything under a roof and ready to go to people who can use them. Salvation Army turns your donations into garbage. read more

This Salvation Army is great. I always come here to raid the shelves. It's a bit different than thrift-store shopping in the Bay Area, because people wear higher end labels there, but there's a lot of interesting stuff in this Chittenango store. First off, this store is huge and easy to navigate. It's laid out in a way that's easy to get around, and usually isn't crowded. There are three changing rooms, so there's often a wait but never too long. The clothing really varies in quality. There's a lot of older, oversized stuff, but there's also a lot of teenage-appropriate clothing, like AE, Aerie, Abercrombie, Old Navy, GAP. I had more luck here with clothes when I was younger and wore stuff like that. You have to look items over carefully--a lot of things have stains on them or are pilling, so I find that I have to put back a lot of things that look interesting on first glance. On my most recent trip, I didn't find much good stuff in the clothing section. I did find a red cotton knit sweater that had clearly never been worn before and had that great oversized-in-a-fitted-hipster-kind-of-way. I also found two nice button-up shirts... a brown Banana Republic one for work and a beautiful linen camp-style shirt. Plus I got a fair isle sweater. In the sweater section, the selection here is better than in the Bay Area, because there actually is a winter in upstate New York! There's also usually some really good stuff in the athletic clothing section, like fleeces and brand name workout hoodies/jackets. My friend got a Tommy Hilfiger fleece jacket in the same style as those North Face ones, as well as an unused Tommy Hilfiger gym bag. On a previous trip there, I got a barely-used Helle Hansen snowboarding jacket for $10... That's usually $300-$500! I also got Burton snowboarding pants, and my friend got snowboarding boots for $20 (as opposed to $100+ retail price). This time around, I got a two-layer Columbia jacket with an outer shell and a zip-out fleece inner layer, that's in perfect condition. For the most part, I haven't had much luck in the shoes/accessories section, but this time I made out like a bandit. Both my friend and I got LLBean-style boots, which I sorely needed for the New York winter. I also got a pair of Sorel boots for $5! In addition, I got a wool scarf made in West Germany (vintage, woot) for 50 cents, plus a 1980 Winter Olympics hat that was in terribly condition but turned pure white again after a wash in warm water at home (again, 50 cents). And best of all, for $2.50, I got a pair of hand-made leather shoes made in the USA (no label) that fit like a glove and look like they could have been purchased from a high-end boutique in Brooklyn. And best of all, my entire set of purchases was 50% off, since it was Wednesdays, when pretty much everything in the store is 50% off. read more

In being a current employee of the Salvation Army I find that what people say about my place of work being a " place u bring your stuff and let it sit out for weeks just to have it ruined" this is so wrong it's funny to me, anyone who's even a little bit educated can ask us what happens to the stuff outside everyday, and I'd tell u ever single morning there is a Salvation Army truck that comes to each store and loads up all that is outside and brings it to the warehouse to be stored for two weeks allowing them to decontaminate the donations , then they get dispersed to al stores. The longest anything will stay outside is overnight...not weeks and weeks ....and as far as my experience working there I've been there over a year now the management has since changed and now everyone I work with along with managers and higher ups have no problem with anyone at my place of work the treatment we get is very very nice we all work as a team to get things done and since the new management we've been more organized as a store and I'd say as a family, and that does mean no verbal abuse or any type of abuse or I wouldn't be working there . Hope this clears the air and gives everyone a better understanding ...Thank you for your time read more