Habitat ReStore in the Capital District — Attraction in Town of Colonie

Started shopping here over a year ago and prices were VERY reasonable. I purchased many pieces of quality used furniture here for fair prices. However, as of last Fall/Winter the prices have gone up an exorbitant amount for the same quality furniture/appliances. The skepticist in me thinks that there may be some behind the scenes pocket padding going on. I say this because a few months back we inquired about the price on a small recliner chair to an employee named Christopher who walks around like he owns the place. We showed him the chair and he gave a crazy high price out of thin air and replied "if you don't take it then I can just sell it somewhere else for more." I'll let anyone reading this make their own judgments as to what to take from this. As a whole they have really nice used items (I have never seen new furniture as they claim to have, but have seen new bathtubs/toilets/tile etc...) and it is well organized, but with the way the prices have been going up and up it is no longer economical for the average middle income adult to purchase from here unless you go on a day when they have special discounts. Might as well spend the same amount...

I couldn't recommend the Restore more highly for buying anything household related. They have furniture, appliances, tools and construction materials, and now even a gift shop with pots & pans, books, and anything else you can imagine.

I renovate homes for a living, and around half the tools and materials I use I find at the restore, for anywhere between 10% and 50% of their price anywhere else. Seriously... 10%!

Their volunteers are extremely friendly and helpful; I couldn't ask for a better experience shopping there, and interacting with all the wonderful people that generously donate their time to Habitat for Humanity. I look forward to seeing some of them each week I go in.

Their inventory changes all the time, so it's worth going in on a regular basis to look around and see what's changed. I'd say around 1/3 of their inventory is brand new (or looks that way), even with the discounted price. Definitely worth...

They use to be good, since they moved across the street almost everything is overpriced and sits in the store for weeks or months needing multiple markdowns before it’s sold. I found items that are from Dollar Tree marked $4, I told the cashier and she looked up from scrolling on her phone and said “I don’t make the prices” and went back to scrolling. Even their sales are mediocre, they always had 50% off sales, now they only do 25% sales after marking the stuff up too high to begin with. The store looks like it’s running out of room because they’re not selling enough. I thought they were great because they were keeping stuff out of the landfills, but since their prices are so high now they can’t take donations half the time so people just have to put their furniture out on...