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Unity Shoppe

4.7 (17 reviews)
Closed 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Updated 2 months ago

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I am the Founder of The Terrace Foundation and the current Chair of Pilgrim Terrace Cooperative Homes. I came to Pilgrim Terrace Homes in 2001. In 2002 I arranged the gift program for my low-income residents. The one thing that has always stuck in my mind when I first met Jan at the Unity Shoppe is; John she said "We try not to give anyone what they don't want". I love this nonprofit organization and I certainly try to follow their example by serving my residents 80 meals a day. Thank you Unity Shoppe for inspiring me to be a better person. My residents have benefited from your programs for over 20 years.

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The unity shop has really cleaned up their active for the years! It's always been a great go to for awesome charitable guides but they have really done excellent merchandise display, I have organized things very well, and have a lovely selection of everything from new tiff InTouch items available. Their prices well although not the lowest, support a good cause and because of their likely extraordinarily high rent to be on State Street downtown, it's understandable that their prices are not thrift store level. However I was able to find many awesome deals on everything from very current There are now several storefronts to next to each other on State Street and I believe still one additional location, again they are clean neat bright well organized almost nothing is out of place... They have some very fine antiques, all kinds of jewelry it's really very extensive and well thought out compared to years before.fashionable clothing to mid century modern vintage and other awesome furniture, trinkets knickknacks gifts galore, luggage a lot of brand new items that have been donated from local companies and a lot of things brand new with tags so if you are a reseller of items or interested in trying things out and still being able to turn them over if they're not quite right for you, it's still within the range of reasonable pricing to do so in my opinion. Definitely worth a stop in and if you're looking to furnish a new apartment or find something fun and new to you if you're into buying things that are pre-loved or may still have the tags on them anyway, it's a great place to go as most of the other charity shops like it has been moved to Goleta and they have really capitalized on taking over some shop spaces that were not being as well utilized. Enjoyed all I got and want more!!!

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Overpriced and not convenient. Parking isn't the best. Shop was clean and organized well. Just too big of a pain to find parking

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