You go to a furniture store for their inventory system and display. You also pay a higher price.
You go to the Furniture Bank Of Rhode Island for a deal, and a wide variety of furniture that is reasonably priced, and to support programs that help people, and to browse a lot without having to empty your pockets. You would go here to be a part of a community that reuses quality, pre-owned items.
The employees I met were kind and helpful. They greeted me and let me do my thing as I browsed.
One of the best parts about this place was the signs they had posted up that helped shoppers consider the process of transferring the bulky furniture. Being that it is not a full service retail store, you might have difficulty finding a way to bring it home.
This is where doing your homework is important. The signs in the store ask about your plans tonbring the furniture home: do you have enough space in your vehicle; does the furniture fit through your home doors; etc.
I like this place, it's like furniture-shopping-lite, all of the flavor with less of...
Read moreI think they're doing a good service. My only fault was that the things that are donated to them are priced so high for families who are in desperate need. And the items that they over for free (you must have a voucher from an angent such as dhs) and in such poor shape. So the most needy of their clients are actually getting items that are not going to last long. I brought a friend, and was saddened that the opportunity for them, (the RI furniture bank) to do good is not being realized to it's fullest potential. In addition, the staff was rude, and not...
Read moreI am really happy that they have something like this for people like myself that sometimes just can't afford something full price but this particular place never has anything there's a marble table for $250 that if you touch it it's going to fall over No chairs to match no bedroom sets things that are broken and they want big bucks for them I don't understand. How is this helping anyone when there's nothing there to choose from except a bunch of lounge chairs like my dad had when he was younger and not to say...
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