Goodwill

Do you even thrift, bro?
You have my respect if you’ve sorted through bins, been elbowed by half a dozen middle aged and elderly women, and paid by the pound for your treasures.
This ain’t no Crossroads. This is some third world type issh. A cluster of gloves and mask wearing folks wait anxiously for each fresh bin. You aren’t one of them. It’s palpable, not that I give shit. The new bin is slowly wheeled toward the cluster and then the walkers go in like they smell a wounded human. Clothes and elbows fly. People stare each other down staking claim on that half decent looking denim piece.
What did I end up with? Some pretty nice looking placemats, a metal serving tray, and some Christmas lights. The metal thing hurt me when it came to the per pound pricing, but I still rolled out dropping less than $ 4.
It’s mostly clothes. Women’s clothes. Not exactly quality. You will need to dig to find stuff. There lots of very cheap books, movies, and video games. I found stuff in the trinket/​used Christmas stuff bin. There is also some über cheap furniture that needs love as well as a good sanding and staining. Show up at 10am and you can get first dibs at those bins as they roll out. Good luck. You are going to need it.
Thrift heavy, eat, sleep, and repeat.

This is one crazy way to shop. People throwing things around. The staff don’t care about the items. Over price some things and under price others.

I love a bargain and I don’t mind the sometimes dirty, wet or broken items I might have to pick through to find a treasure.
The biggest drawback for me are the «regulars» who are there all day — every day picking for stuff to resell at flea markets. The regulars will have 2 – 3 carts full of stuff covered with a blanket while they work on their next cart. They also work in teams and know each other. They know the employees who actually alert them when something good is coming out. They line up shoulder to shoulder blocking out normal customers and then swarm the bin grabing anything they thing might be of value while tossing the other stuff into other bins making it nearly impossible for a regular person to get in there and see anything new that hasn’t been picked over by the professionals.
I used to go fairly often, but now the regulars are so aggressive and numerous that I’ can’t compete with their crews.

You think yard sale price is cheap! Wait till you come here. I just had to share this place because I ain’t greedy like them people standing in line for those bins to be rolling out. You’ll see when u get here. Bring sanitizer, tissues, and wear a cross body purse. (If your a women). This is the place for super dirt cheap inventory for your flea market, EBAY, etsy and books for amazons! It’s $ 1.49lb and books are .25cent soft cover and .50cent hard covers. make sure to bring your own recycled bag. Shopping carts are alway all used up. If you get a cart make sure to double tie a scarf to it so the cart steeler won’t be able to un tie your scarf fast. Advice dig dig dig!!! Monday’s Thursday and Friday are the best! Best loads comes on those days. Or come everyday. $ 60 gets a whole cart full of clothes! Isn’t that awesome!

Ok for all the people writing bad reviews of this place, maybe pay by the pound thrift isn’t for you. There’s a reason it’s $ 1.49 per #. If you want neatly organized and hung up on racks it’s going to cost more so accept it for what it is.
That being said, I go from time to time; you for have to go in with your game face on otherwise you could very well take an elbow to the rib by the aggressive mild aged women who shop there, but I’ve never have an issue.
After spending about 45 – 60 min digging and ALWAYS spending well under $ 20, I emerge with 4 – 5 bags brimming with goodies, including shoes, clothes, purses, fabric, etc.
I’ll keep digging through the bins, and the fussy frans who can’t handle it can go to the yuppie-​ish thrift stores. More scores for me!

Telling friends I was going to the bins was like telling friends I was being sent to an internment camp — the bins seemed like a desolate, dirty, crowded and scary place without humanity. «Wear gloves,» advised my brother.
I’m happy to report it wasn’t quite the funkfest I’d anticipated. It was bad in the not glamorous way — angry babies, poorly worn booty shorts, grim undercurrents — but also a lot of fun.
Highlights!
* Cheap dressers, bed frames and furniture — under 20.00 (There were some decent looking chairs and couches… that smelled like cat pee.)
* Beautiful Saris — sari’s don’t sell at Goodwill. So they come to the bins! You’ve got to dig, but you can find some lovely fabrics.
* Glassware — if you paint glass or your college aged cousin needs to buy cheap wine glasses, tumblers or jelly jars, glassware is 1.49 per pound. The glasses are mismatched, but easy to sterilize.
* The staff — It can’t be always sunshine and smiles at work, but the staff handling the checkout line were very nice with great senses of humor.
*If you don’t find any oddball treasures, there’s a regular goodwill a few blocks down.

By far one of the messiest store I’ve been to. You have people pushing and shoving and there was this one time where a kid got knocked over while the employees was pushing a bin in. The employee rushed the cart and people moved backed which knocked the kid over. I could barely see the kid getting up in the thick crowd even though the crying could be heard from which I was standing from, about ten yards away. No one besides the mom tended her child. There is just a huge crowd rushing towards the new bins and I believe there should be more precaution while doing this. Maybe have the security block off an area so new bins can be placed instead of having them walk around and look good only then go to the back storage. The employees just seems to want to push out their bins and go back to the backroom. Sometimes they bump into people with the bins whether taking or bringing out new carts. Also they don’t let you SIT on the couches! After seeing all these madness I went to another room where the furniture was at. I sat on a sofa for about three minutes and then a random huge barely can walk African guy with no name tag and a stain sweater said I can’t sit on it unless I buy it. (Maybe he works there, I don’t know). Its a goodwill store! I’ve been to other Goodwill’s that has no problem with people sitting on the couches. I’ve seen other Goodwill’s handle things better. Go only if you want to see bad service and crazy people.

i am a fan of this place. i know this is not in a good neighborhood and many bums inside but this is where u find the goodies at. when i walked in i was like omg the people are no joke they are dressed ready to go through the bins and throw them in their own carts that they bring with them because don’t expect to get a cart inside because those are all taking.
i felt like i was dumpster diving inside here looking for the good stuff. but when i saw the clothes i was like no thanks because omg some look so filthy and dirty and it just look appealing to even go through it and find the nice stuff.
however i do like to go through the bins with the electronics and purses and accessories. while i was digging through the stuff i found a burburry purse which was fake, found a gucci red leather purse which was vintage and looks real, found a old tear up prada bag which was real and vintage and it was in very bad condition tho. i also found a canister organizer for like remotes, pens, and etc to hold in it.
i also found a cute panada bag to hold my junk i carry everyday lol… but man while i was digging through the bins it felt like i was fighting with people because they are all hovering and throwing stuff everywhere lol to find the goodies.
most of the people looked homeless or very poor which i don’t have a problem with a long as they are not rude to me or being mean to me.
anyways i came out the store with one gucci purse and panada bag and a metal organizer and i didn’t know they weigh the items and i forgot how much it cost for a lb but it was under 2 bucks a pound like a dollar 80 i believe. i came out the store with only spending 5 bucks which i was very happy with.
i will have to come back here more often to dig through the bins and find them good treasures. also the large items like xmas trees and etc don’t weigh by lbs those are on the price list for cheap. my friend told me they found a unopened kmart 7 foot tree with a price tag on there and paid only 10 bucks out the door. so i was like u can really find good deals.

I am done with this place. Oh, there are occasion bargains to be had, if someone does not steal it from your cart. This happens much too frequently. And «rude» does not fully describe the lot of frenzied people jumping upon every new bin that comes out. Unless you are prepared to trade elbows to not get push aside, tolerate the smells of some who have not bathed for a week, get stuff ripped from your hands by «professional shoppers,» then be prepared to sift through their leftovers. And the book buyers, as others have described, literally do horde all the books, grabbing any «worthy in their eyes» book, throwing it into their two carts, and then checking the price of the books later to see if it is worth buying. Again, you get stuck with the leftovers. There are probably five or six of them, one couple seems to be there every day and every hour; however, they do not smell and are not as pushy. Scavengers rip apart any computer to buy only the memory cards and maybe the hard drive, leaving the remainder a useless hulk. Searching for clothes or shoes ($ 2 a pair) is the same story tho occasionally i get lucky because there is so much of it and the hoarders just can’t get it all. And then when you are ready to check out, often there are long lines and only one checkout person. However, to be fair, the Goodwill staff is probably overwhelmed by the hordes; the employees I have interacted with all seem very nice and courteous. And not every shopper is a despicable low-​life, there are some decent people there trying to get bargains, whether for themselves, to ship overseas, or for resale, to stretch their dollars. However, after having yet another item taken from my cart while I was looking through the bins, because i don’t have eyes on the back of my head, I am done.

Yup, you will literally be picking through other peoples trash. Sometimes theres dirt, crumbs, spiders, and even soaking wet clothing. I’ve been picking for years and have done it all over the US including NYC and LA but never ever have I seen such a f*cked up bunch of regulars. I seriously do not fathom how these are «residents of California» they’re rude, close minded, and I assume some to be uneducated. This is not to say ALL of the people there are like that because I have met some really wonderful folks here. Many of the regulars act like its prison, like they have the right to own it as territory. So if you decide to go, look out for the crack heads and ugly women who hate their lives!

Large store with racks upon racks of clothing, organized by color and size. They do have a plus-​size section. Shoes are very hit & miss. (Note: I’ve only looked/​bought Women’s items here.) The home goods & craft area is chaotic! Very small furniture area. Handbags & accessories are all over the store, not one central location.
Store location is easy to find with lots of easy parking and friendly staff. Not the best area of town, but I’ve never had any problems.

I love this place! I’m close to the one on madison but this one has better clothes. You have to know what you’re getting yourself into before you go though. Its dirty, so bring hand sanitizer or gloves. Never Any baskets so if you have a rolling cart or something bring it. Otherwise you dig through the bins and find all kinds of treasures. I get all of my daughter’s justice brand clothing here and it’s 1.49 a lb ! Can’t beat that. People can be rude and pushy which is why I quit coming on the sale days. I love it here though.

This goodwill is hard core. If you are a real thrift shopper this is the place for you only if you have time and patience. A dollar 49 cents a pound is a good deal only if you are willing to fight and dig n bins along with other thrifters. Each time I come to this place I score Hollister Abercrombie forever 21 and many more brands. I usually spend an hour 30minutes with 3 full bags for only 10.00. It’s a steal!

Sacramento Goodwill Outlet
This store should have a caution sign that says:
«For safety reasons customers should wear elbow and knee pads as well as goggles and gloves to protect their hands from other exuberant shoppers. Please keep all gunfire outside»
This is a mad house. I loved it! Besides the usual nutjobs muttering to them selves or screaming at a fake christmas tree, they have die-​hard professional shoppers that can grab faster than a frog on a dragonfly. One guy’s sleeve actually wiped my nose as it passed too close underneath. There are arms reaching around you as you stand there, trying to grab something past you. I must have looked like the Indian statue in the Beatles «Help» movie with all the arms waving around.
There are no «excuse mes» that would waste valuable ‘reaching for stuff’ time.
This is the granddaddy of all die-​hard thrifting. Every polite social grace is abandoned. It’s a blast! Stooping is sooo under-​rated!
Everytime I’ve gone, the same couple (that must sleep in the clothes bins when everyone goes home) is there in the books, hoarding and hovering over an overstuffed cart. They bring their own glue, color markers and other repair doodads to see if a book can be fixed before they buy it. If they don’t like the result it gets thrown like a hot potato back into the bin. The over flowing books in their cart are 99 cent sellers, (if that,) now that every soandsoandhismother sells on ebay.
I can’t wait to go back. I’m considering wearing boxing gloves, a stun gun and flakjacket. Although… The boxing gloves could slow me up competing for books…

Came here today to purchase loads of clothes that I will be donating to the Haiyan/​Yolanda victims. I just would like to say this spot is pretty awesome! First off this is not your typical thrift store with organized shelf and clothing in hangers so don’t expect much. The set up is pretty self-​explanatory with giant bins of clothes, shoes, books, some furniture on a separate room, etc. You get whatever you want/​find so FYI BRINGS GLOVES AND HAND SANITIZERS because you will be digging up to those bins! The fact that they charge $ 1.39/lb of clothing says it all (yes you can buy single items too but why would you want to do that!?). You can find really nice and branded clothes here if you’re patient enough! For the ladies, think semi-​annual sale at Victoria’s Secret except there will be a lot of guys digging for clothes next to you so WEAR COMFORTABLE AND APPROPRIATE CLOTHING.

This place is a gem! Especially if you like name brand stuff. Yes there are some folks here that seem like their life depends on what they find but I have found some awesome stuff here. I have found things from clothes, to house goods, to anything else this place has everything. I am an odd ball and I love odd little house on the prairie clothes, or real dresses from the 50’s or even costumes and I find the cutest things here. So what you have to dig, and wear gloves live a little. :)

I’ve had good luck finding brand name clothes in excellent condition.
However, today was my first and last time coming here when they have their 50% off sale. It was packed like a Black Friday Event. You do not really save that much unless you buy a boatload of stuff. I usually spend around $ 4 to $ 10 per visit and get quite of bit of stuff. So I would only be saving $ 2 to $ 5 dollars. It ain’t worth the frenzy. There was a higher level of tension because it was so crowded and some people were more aggressive than normal. It would not surprise me if some people would get violent. This site has had security guards on site but not today of all days. I saw a clerk warn a customer to be less impatient and wait when the bins full of clothes comes rolling out. After you gather up your pickings, you have to wait in a gawd awful longer than normal checkout line.
Just go on a normal business day. It’s still plenty cheap and a better experience.
KUDOS for the newly repaved parking lot.
Now can you work on providing more shopping carts, please?

If you are lazy and not willing to be trampled and run into just to fight over an old fadded tattered hoodie, then this is not your place. They sell the clothing by the pound, but you have to dig (literally) through dirty smelling unorganized bins. there is also an «electronic» section of broken out of date items, if that’s your thing.
there is a book section with cheap books as far as the eye can see. And the beat part is the furniture room! A MUST if you are going for the unmatched décor to spruce up your place! (all jokes aside, I did find a very cheap coffee table)
It’s all about coming on the right day at the right time. (unless you have lots of time to kill). I personally don’t have the time nor patience.

1.39 bucks for a lb of clothes sounds like a steal right. yea not really .if you have to work super hard just to find a shirt or pant that are actually wearable. When I first walked into this place, I thought holly molly this is a freaking battle field. In some corners of the store, I saw ton of people were fighting. digging crazily through bins after bins of dirty clothes. and in some of these bins, they even have used underwear laying around ugh. not sanitized at all. I was afraid that I would catch some skin disease after touching the stuff in here :(. but in the end, my effort paid off. After 2 hours of wrestling with other ladies in the store, I managed to scored some pastel skinny jeans and vintage shirts and tons of other treasures for ONLY 11 bucks. yup, 2 bag fulls of clothes and jeans for 11 bucks .
Overall, this place has some great stuff. some of the clothes that I found are in trend and i paid less than 11 cent for a pair of jean. I can’t complain. but of course, finding good stuff at this place takes an enormous amount of effort, time and tolerance for dirtiness and the smell.

Damn, this place is hardcore. Come prepared to sift through mountains of bins – and watch out when they roll out a new bin (typically the size of a compact car) because then it’s every man, woman and child for him or herself.
Also, don’t be offended if some crazy old Russian lady places a curse on you. I’m pretty sure she does that to all the young whippersnappers who get in her way.
You’re buying by the pound so there are some seriously good deals to be had – you just have to come prepared to work – I scored two giant bags of stuff for just $ 14 (and that included a really heavy fur vest).
I need a shower now.