Goodwill Industries Outlet Store — Attraction in Spokane

Both a full retail store seperate internally, connected externally, to Goodwill Bins store. Large donation center. This location offers ample, dedicated parking away from the highway. Easy access from downtown via i90 and hw2, north Spokane via Hayford/Old Trails, Fairchild and beyond via hw2, west and Cheney via Hayford and hw 2. Go south at the roundbout in front of Dutch Brothers coffee stand, continue south through S curve, approximately the equivalent of 2 blocks, where you will see Goodwill on your left (east), across from the now-closed Village Center Cinema building.

Bins are pay-by-the-pound, with prices getting incrementally lower. Some items individually priced and well marked. The "bins" are exactly as they sound. 4 long rows of rolling Bins full of disarray of items including clothing, homegoods, decor, appliances, furniture, sporting goods, books, gardening supplies, art and office supplies, and about anything else you can image someone having donated. 2 rows are rotated away and new brought in every hour. Typically, 2 rows are clothing and soft items (bedding), and 2 rows are everything else listed above. Books and shoes can be found in permanent Bins at the store perimeter (usually east wall). Large, better condition furniture, glassware, and appliances can be found in the rear of the store and prices individually. Dedicated DVD, CD, VHS, tapedeck, and record section in the rear.

Pros: Staff here is friendly and cashiers always seem to have a great attitude despite what is probably a hectic environment. Extremely inexpensive way to aquire items. Great for scrap textile projects, dog and camping bedding, books of all kinds, children's outdoor toys, clothing for home, reuseable grocery and shopping bags, gym and yardwork clothing. Routinely rotated stock. Spacious building, safe area of town with other shopping conveniently nearby, all highway and freeway access, no need to travel long distance through city, and retail store next door offers another means of acquiring a specific item if you can't find it in the Bins. Interior and exterior of this location feels much safer than previous location downtown Spokane. There are sometimes new or quality items that simply didn't sell elsewhere. I've found brand new BBQ covers, unused tarps, piles of brand new shirts, expensive winter gear undamaged, nice photo frames, new fly fishing waders, new insulated coveralls, and many outdoor decor items well worth purchasing. Most times I've visited there has been a privately contracted security officer present.

Cons: Yes, it smells like a thrift store... one of the more potent. Yes, sometimes items are dirty or even wet, though the latter is less often. Much of the contents of the Bins are "junk", unusable for anything. You have to rummage through, especially with clothing and bedding, to find those special items. There are regular resellers and hoarders who frequent daily and can be pushy or rude in some cases. Yes, there is always a few people completely high out of their mind stumbling through with a basket overflowing with items. A quarter of the customers smell STRONGLY of weed (it is WA afterall), groups of young men tasked with finding urban clothing to resell online or locally through vintage shops shove through, crowd others, sometimes take things right from in front of you as you're reaching, some young regulars loudly use foul language amongst elderly and children, and congregate on the west wall while waiting for bin rotation, playing dice in the save-bins like it's their own backyard party.

Overall: If you are a regular thrifter and not afraid to put on some gloves and brave sometimes unsavory atmosphere, this is your place to shine! If you are put off or made anxious by bad attitudes or mess, go next door instead. Recommend going midweek. Weekends can be very busy. Evenings near closing time are the quietest. Lock your car, but your stuff is still safer here than about anywhere in...

This place is a treasure hunt all in itself. This new facility is much cleaner feeling esp compared to the old place in Spokane. If you have issues with germs or immune compromised then I'd recommend gloving up maybe even face mask. This type of shopping isn't for everyone but for those like myself it's definitely a bit of fun/scavenger hunt. So here's how it works... Goodwill has leftover stock, items that never made it to the shelves of their store, and more but items get put into large rolling bins and they get rolled out onto the floor (6-8 rows) and then the customers start digging! Maybe you have ideas of items you looking for or like me just keeping an eye out for the best found treasure. Mostly everything is sold by the lb (tho some is by item mainly it's by the pound). I've picked up antiques, newer electronics, and cart full of clothes for cheap cheap. They rotate bins out to keep me low and new items to dig through. In but sure how often they rotate but at least a row an hour it seems

The atmosphere is normal people of all walks of life getting their dig on! The store is well kept and clean. They have sanitizer located by the doors. It can get a little crowded but mainly people seem to stay mannered.

If digging isn't your thing but finding good deals are this place also has a goodwill store attached on other side of building. That place also clean well kept and good deals found.

(This is prob one of my...

If you've ever been to a real Goodwill outlet store with all the bins, I wouldn't come to this one. Instead of going by weight or their own signs the cashier we had tried to nickel dime me on almost every item in my cart. Weighed out my metals weighed out my clothing items. The signs state unless things are marked especially then you go by the pound unless it's shoes glassware etc that is weighed differently... She tried to get me to pay $5 each for these $8 bins brand new. I told her I didn't want them, then I asked her about the signs and why things aren't being weighed out and she's just giving me whatever price she could come up with. She explained to me that's how her store manager trained her for special items that I pulled out of the bin.

Even though I just saw her weigh the person in front of me, their cart by the pound. Full of miscellaneous items like mine.

Literally took half the things out of my cart because of her whack pricing. Definitely not coming here again to find out that half my cart is going to end up costing me $50 for some severely used items at the end of the day when I used to pay for a fairly heavy cart in other stores, at...