Idaho Youth Ranch Thrift Store — Local services in Payette

I have been shopping and donating here for a good long while. I love shopping nonprofits trying to give back to the community and so on. This last year has been crazy denying donations, gently used items. Perfectly reusable. The attitude! From staff and donations is unbelievable. Like If you hate your job them, why are you even there. (Money) I get it working customer service is hard some times. I worked at a thrift store for 10 years and it was the best! Hard some times but so fun! But payette youthranch idk. Go in and shop, not a hi how are you, find everything ok? Not a word but to ask if i have a rewards number and if I want to round up (which i always do) Not a smile nothing. If your having a hard day dont take it out on the customer???

I go to the ontario youth ranch as well they are always nice and not to mention thr prices are normal prices unlike payette who seems to triple the prices??? Paying full price! New price for second hand items is odd to me? Not to mention the waste. One day I was donating i has some trash and went to throw it away in the dumpster. Noticed a bunch of children's clothes. (not gonna lie i looked at them) nothing wrong with them??? I did take them (there was no sign saying it was prohibited) i washed them and donated them to my church. Youth ranch is supposed to help the children in need? You may say oh well maybe someone thought it was a donation bin? Maybe but seems odd to me.. either way. Do better payette...

If you are looking for a bargain don't bother shopping here. The prices are HORRENDOUSLY HIGH! i didn't see one single item that was less than full retail cost and many items were 50-100% higher than retail. Reverend Crow would roll over in his grave if he knew that this store was being run this way. The whole point of the youth ranch stores is to support the mission of helping our youth and adoptions as well. You can't make money for those programs as customer after customer leaves with nothing. Just while sitting here writing this review 7 customers left empty handed and i watched several others leave while i was walking around. Even little old ladies were saying how outrageous the prices were and i watched so many people pick items up check the price and say no thank you. This store needs new management asap or it'll end up costing the youth ranch large sums of money to pay rent on a building that might as well shut down because it's just rediculous the way things are going. Shop at the other locations because the kids need money to fund the programs and its a total waste of time...

I recently took some seniors in to shop. The seniors are on a limited income as most of they're income goes to the facility. One wanted to get some leggins, the price was $9.99, they was worn and old. I explained that, we would go to Ross or the Family Dollar where she could get 2 for the price and new. My seniors couldn't afford the prices for used, when they can get new else where.

They also didn't have rest rooms, however the local bar a few doors down was nice enough to let them come in and use the rest rooms. I understand maybe one rest room down, but both?

Needless to say, I won't be back. Shame on them for not allowing our seniors to use the rest room. They do have rest rooms that work. Pricing used clothing at new prices. Very disapointing, and I have shopped Idaho Youth Ranch for years, also donated.

Time to rethink where I...