Habitat For Humanity ReStore of Champaign County — Attraction in Champaign

I used to absolutely love coming to the ReStore when it was in the old location on University Avenue. I stopped by nearly every single day. I have been extremely disappointed as of late and it just breaks my heart to leave this review.

Just to be completely clear, this review is based off of me going to the ReStore consistently over the last several months (I did not visit just once and leave).

First of all, the community is a university town, made up of a huge population of students, many of whom do not drive and who lived close to the old ReStore that was just outside of Campustown. These are the people who really need the used items in the store and it was a convenient drop-off location for donations because it was in the main center of the community. It is now out in the middle of pretty much nowhere and an inconvenience to get to by car. Even if people were able to take the bus, there is no way to transport furniture back. I really, really miss the old location. I feel like this new location out in the middle of nowhere is why they are seemingly low on inventory - it's a pain to go all the way out there for donation drop-ff or shopping. Not to mention the gas prices recently ...

Second, I have noticed that the quality of the furniture and items have gone sharply downhill since the Restore moved to its new location. There used to be an entire floor of housewares and now it is very much restricted to one small area on the floor. I got some wonderful items in there a few years ago and I just don't see the same quality. Some of the furniture has been really scratched up beyond repair and would take a professional refinishing job to "restore" ... it just seems like there's nothing on the floor anymore to buy, despite there being a million items in the 'storage' back room just sitting there in plain sight yet out of reach to buyers.

Again, I'm sorry to have to leave this review, as I found so many interesting and quality items in there just a few years ago but now, it seems that everything has changed. I sincerely hope that it...

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