Goodwill Central Texas - Hutto — Attraction in Hutto

Once upon a time Goodwill was a place you could go to and find things for a fraction of what they would cost new. While this may still be true on some things, unfortunately this Goodwill and many others as well are pricing items in many cases higher than what you would see in a pawn shop and much higher than what you could find it for on Craigslist. Here is an example of what I saw when I was in this store last. A small flat screen TV no bigger than 27 inches was priced at $99.99 and a 42 inch was $149.99 and neither of these were newer ones. This is very troubling to me since everything that they sell is donated and cost them nothing. As a long time Goodwill shopper, to see this Goodwill and many others I have visited in the past 6 months trending in this direction in my opinion goes against what Goodwill`s original mission was when it opened many years ago. The pricing in this store on anything worth anything I have found to be well above fair value pricing, when in the past pricing was exactly the opposite. The only thing that you are going to find at a cheap price are things that for the most part are really not wort much to begin with. I felt like the time I spent visiting this Goodwill was wasted and could have been spent elsewhere with better results and if you do visit this store and observe the same thing that I have take a moment and leave a review and share what you have found and maybe enough of these type of reviews will make them reconsider how they are currently pricing the merchandise they sell. I hope you have found this...

Our family goes to Goodwill on Sunday afternoons and usually have a great experience because each of us find something we can really use and enjoy. Sadly our idea to drive out to Hutto and check out their location was a BIG mistake. After about 20 minutes of shopping a cashier made an announcement that “shoppers with children need to make final selections and come to the register.” Our 5 kids looked up and asked us if that meant we had to leave. I wanted to keep shopping but my husband didn’t like the way the cashier was glaring at our family. We made our way to the registers where the cashiers rushed our transactions and avoided eye contact with us. It was only 5:20pm so we kept our face masks on and checked out the location off of Hwy 130 where we found even better finds and were able to exchange the items from the Hutto location. We won’t be visiting Goodwill Hutto anytime soon and recommend families with young children beware. They will make intercom announcements and glare at your kids. Also we noticed Hutto is still printing the old style receipts with the 10% off survey reward. Goodwill Central Texas discontinued their survey website and 10% coupon program about 2 months ago. They will not honor the 10% coupon...

Wife went by this morning at 9:58 to donate some clothes. The drop off area had a bunch of things sitting there already. When she went to go get out her box, a lady came to the window shook her finger at her and held up 10 fingers which she thinks meant they open up at 10 and walked away but hard to know since it was all aggressive sign language through the window. However, not sure why that mattered as it seems everyone had already started dropping off this morning. A better response would have been, “good morning, we actually don’t accept donations until 10 so can you please wait just 2 minutes?” Also, apparently this didn’t matter for anyone else? If that’s the case, the area should be blocked off and have signage so people know. Jokes on goodwill is the box that was now donated to Salvation Army instead was full of free people, Anthropologie, REAL coach purses (this goodwill likes to sell fake ones), Patagonia and north face items. Will be taking all our donations to Salvation Army from now on as the drop off workers at this goodwill have always been rude but this was the...