Goodwill Industries of New Mexico – Menaul Store

The Goodwill Store on Menaul at Juan Tabo is a great place to find treasures. The staff is what makes this store special for me because they are so friendly and hard working. You need to visit often as each day new donations arrive.

I love to shop thrift stores in town Especially goodwill, Im a picker, I love to find cool and unique things past or present. This store seriously disappointed me from the cleanliness, the pricing and even customer service, being in retail over 7 years I know a thing or two about customer service and they don’t have it ESPECIALLY the manager! I was very shocked the way I was spoken to from this individual, very unhappy, and the pricing is outrageous, this stuff is donated goods but don’t need to be sold at retail price. I will not be returning to this location anytime soon.

I have other favorite thrift stores, although there is the occasional find here. I find it to be moderately priced. Eddie Bauer is not a specialty item for me. It’s clean, well organized with men’s, women’s, kids sections, etc. Staff are friendly.
With each visit I do come across one great «find». What else can you ask for?

OK, I can admit it… Im a Picker. There it is! Seriously though just a few things I’ve learned & would like to share since I’ve started my shop (
) I know, I know as I shamelessly self-promote…The Goodwill Ind. IS a great resource among the varied thrift store entities out there, you can rest assured that 80% of what they pull in profit-​wise goes to training & job creation. In addition, jobs created are for disadvantaged, disabled workers who would otherwise have difficulty getting employment.
So, that being said… if you see items priced in such a way you say «What the. I thought this was the Goodwill!!!» Well, if it has a ‘green’ price tag its been purchased new from Target & resold for ½ the newly listed Target price.
Finally, the Goodwill is onto us ‘Pickers’ & will now do their own online searches for those items of suspected value & print the online auction price, attach it to the goods & price said item competitively… which is the main reason I am giving 3-​stars, because although I am all for job creation/​training via profits… I know Goodwill CEO’s are among the highest paid out there (1.1M for 2009 Calif. Goodwill CEO~Forbes).