America’s Thrift Stores & Donation Center - Opelika — Local services in Opelika

This place is HUGE and if you look long enough, you can some really good deals. I found a NordicTrak treadmill that only had 15 hours on it for $60. You can find all sorts of used clothes, but the prices are a bit high for a thrift store. $9-10 for a t-shirt is ridiculous.

The worst part of this store is the fitting rooms. For a store of this size, there should be multiple rooms, but unfortunately there's only 2...and those two are so poorly lit inside, it's hard to see what you are trying on. If a room is occupied and the person opens the door to leave, if the next person doesn't catch it before it closes, the door is locked. If you go to the front area to ask someone to bring a key, no one ever comes. I'm not sure why the fitting room doors have to be locked...what's the purpose in that?

Other than the fitting room issues, the store is kept nice and clean and organized quite well. You just have to look hard to find something that's not overpriced...but that's true in almost all...

This America's Thrift Store has raised their prices to the point where they are losing customers (me and everyone I know), aren't getting new customers, and employees I know talk about being worried about their jobs and future of the store.

The shelves are overflowing, everything I looked at today was broken, incomplete, obsolete, had been there for weeks, or was just an empty box. It was impossible to look through items without others falling off shelf and onto the floor - so I gave up.

I found out something today that I didn't know... ATS is a company that solicits "donations" but isn't in any way a charity or nonprofit. They get other people's junk for free, put astronomical prices on it, and can't provide a receipt that we can use for taxes.

I'd guess, after today's visit, that employees (that I don't know) think something is up (possibly related to County recently placing a lein on the store for unpaid taxes) and are now all rude...

We enjoy shopping here and do find items we were looking for cheaper than what can be purchased new. The last couple of times we have shopped there tags have been placed in a way as to cause holes or snags in the items. Causing t-shirt material to run and make larger holes. And other dress items snagging in a way that cannot be repaired.

It would be easy to keep this from happening by simply putting the tags in the inside seams of clothing or across the hem of the neckline.

If I shop there in the future I will go back to checking to make sure item will not have a hole in it once the tag is removed. Unfortunately this requires removing the tag before you...