Goodwill - Cambridge

Without doubt the premium thrift store experience. Genius marketing in the name and extremely well presented throughout, they simply nailed the perfect formula. While the percentage of funds actually going to charitable causes is nowhere near what you'd expect, it's hard to argue with this business model. We supply their stock of saleable goods and they sell it back to us, generating massive profit margins. Well played. As for the individual shopping experience, it's magnificent. Like a treasure hunt, only without an 'X' marking the spot. Truthfully, it depends what you're in the market for. Being a fairly average sized individual as I am, there's great variety in the clothing. I check here maybe two or three times a year, and sometimes leave with more than a dozen items costing significantly under $100 in total. I even enjoy shopping here with my wife, partly because of those treasure hunt type feelings, but also knowing that if we do find something special, it's a wonderful treat delivered on a budget, which honestly feels twice as nice. Really, the only frustrations are finding things that look fantastic but aren't quite the correct size, because everything is unique, and they absolutely do not have alternate sizes. There's other stuff here besides clothing, though it is significantly harder to stumble into other types of goods that are exactly what you want. When you do though, it can be a quite stunning result. Our dining room table, for example. Easily worth ten times what we paid for it. Outstanding.

Very good Goodwill extremely clean and cheap.

Things that would cost $15 at most Twin Cities Goodwill's is around $9 here.

Mostly only clothes which is too be expected in this type of Goodwill (small community)