American Thrift Center — Local services in West Mifflin

This review pains me to write. We used to love this thrift store. We live quite a distance and at minimum we came shop and donate weekly. Over 20+ years we have donated from our homes to the paralyzed vets and we bring new or gently used items to the store Combining donations and what we spend on items our contribution is substantial. Over the past year we have tried to support local businesses. When the thrift store reopened we were right there. Unfortunately this establishment is anti mask, anti vaccination and they are very open and rude about it. They were on the floor maskless and allowed customers to shop maskless. We tried to stay away from customers and staff to no avail. I took clean sealed masks and asked customers not social distancing from me if they would like one. Some people were coughing and one lady was on her phone telling her son he needed to go to the hospital because he had a fever. We remained home for awhile during those first case and death surges. We came back and most staff was better..masking on the floor and only in the back room was it off. Mask required on their site and doors and register partition posted social distancing and face coverings. Beside our masks and hand sanitizer we bring hydrogen peroxide in a small spray bottle. We spray the cart handles and our hands as we touch items. We do everything to be safe for ourselves and others. We all have a right to shop safely and we are confused by the complacency of others. Yesterday a maskless woman was next to me no matter where I went. I asked her to put on a mask, she replied she was over it and she bought nothing. My friend stopped to ask an employee if they wait on customers refusing to wear a mask? Employee (mask under her nose) was confused. I said masks were mandated for now until we are vaccinated and the variants subside (and we achieve herd immunity) She got irate and so oh no vaccination and they only end to this was getting rid of the dam masks. I questioned her on mandate definition and she repeated it’s not a law. We give up the no win argument and pay for our items. Cashier puts on her mask to wait on us and is pleasant. We are confronted by “manger outside, do we have a problem? Reply yes, the masks..why is on your door if don’t enforce it? She went into full Karen we didn’t have to shop or donate here. I didn’t want that outcome because we love this weekly outing. I asked to speak to the owner. I thought she was calling him but she called the police. This is ridiculous. We all want this nonsense to end, we are pandemic fatigued. But until we all cooperate it drags on endlessly. This is not about taking freedoms away it is about no ones rights superseding another’s. Now the thrift store, paralyzed vets and us lose out because of the imposition of wearing a mask for...

This evening myself, my wife and my daughter stopped by the American Thrift Center in West Mifflin at 1806 Homeville Rd to do some shopping. It was our first visit there and at first we found it to be a pleasant place. We looked them up online and found out that their store hours were 8:00am - 8:00pm Mon-Fri, which were the same hours on their door. We arrived about 6:45pm, at 7:31pm a older senior citizen female possibility the store manager announced over the stores PA system that the store would be closing shortly and to bring your items to the register; again the store hours online & on their front door says 8:00pm. At 7:37pm the woman announced again but with a very irritated and elevated tone of voice that the store is closing, bring your items to the register now! At this point my wife was walking up to the register were my wife and I both ask her about all the signs that say you close at 8:00pm? She answered in a irritated and rude fashion that “We close at 7:45pm, we have to be out of the building at 8:00pm! She finished by saying “We have things to do ourselves” I told her that the 3 of us work as well and we knew how business hours work, and then I suggested to her that if that is the case she might want to look into changing the business hours on the door and online to say 7:45pm instead of 8:00pm! I say all that to end with these words. Whether we ever shop there again hasn’t been determined yet, I just want to let American Thrift Center management know who they have working for them. Myself, my wife and daughter all work with the public in sales and the medical fields and I know if we treated our customers and patients the way we were treated this evening we probably would have our jobs for long. Ced...

Went in pretty late in the afternoon. Prices pretty much all over the place. Toys pretty reasonable as low as $0.99 all the way up to $5 for the bigger plush, electronics most items around $10 with some of the bigger items around $25 and many of them not even close to being complete or new in the box. I don't know how you could charge $25 for something missing parts. Finally hit a couple finds toward the back. I got a 18-in wicker mirror that I might be able to flip for $50 for just five bucks in box and I found a hole punch around $3.50 which I might be able to get about $30 since it was new in box. Confusing was the color system. I think I had one green and one orange so the the total of $8.50 went down to $4 and some change. Quite impressed. Overall, I'm not sure where they get their pricing system and if they had better electronics for the crazy prices, this store would be pretty stellar. Oh yeah, and I didn't like how they wrote the prices on the actual items themselves making it impossible to remove from the box or you'd have to use some kind of acetone to remove from the item. They really should get sticker prices like...