Goodwill Outlet

I went to the Goodwill Outlet in Dayton tonight between 7:30 & 8 pm in search of a green dress. I found a couple I was interested in, then I proceeded to look for a fitting room. When I couldn’t find one, I asked a store employee in the back who was mopping the floor. He had black curly hair with a blue hat on. He said he was unsure and to ask the other guy who was mopping in the center of the store. I asked him and he seemed unsure at first, but I asked him if the restroom was a possibility and he said yes. So I proceeded to try on a dress in the restroom, the ladies’ room, and upon exiting I was met in the middle of the store by a store security person. He asked me to come and talk to him. He started questioning why I went to the restroom to try on clothes, because that’s not allowed, and I explained that the guy in the middle who was mopping said it was okay, and he said «What guy mopping the floor?!» as if he didn’t believe me and he thought I was lying. Luckily, the person happened to walk back on the floor from the back, and I pointed him out, and the guy said «Oh, you mean Rick?» And he called Rick over and asked him if he said it was okay. And Rick in a roundabout way without really wanting to admit it, said yes, but that I asked him first, which I don’t know how that makes a difference. Security person informed me and him both that that wasn’t allowed. I thought I’d be on my way at that point, no big deal, but then he had to ruin my whole experience by asking «Are you a guy or a girl?» Very inappropriate! He said that someone reported to him that they «saw a guy go in the bathroom». I’m guessing that was a store employee. I offered to show him my drivers license as proof, but he said no, that he was «just asking». Not cool! The prison mentality there plus being made feel uncomfortable by being questioned about my gender was just disgusting. I really didn’t want to buy anything after that but I needed the dress pretty bad so I proceeded to get it anyway, and the cashier was nice which made it not as bad, but I shouldn’t have to put up with being made uncomfortable during shopping, or better yet using the restroom

If you’ve got the time and more importantly the patience you may find what your looking for. I came to look for a picture re to hang over a crack in the wall until I get it fixed. $ 15 and 20 minutes later I was the owner of a satellite image map of the earth. I got home to find out it was originally hanging in a study at Yankee Trace! (Info written on back of picture that I hadn’t noticed at first.)
The place is pure chaos. There are a number of aisles created by huge bins of unsorted donations. The warehouse is also lined by the bins. There are a few sections where items have been sorted. Such as the picture frames in the back. In the madness costs are kept down and you may just find a rare gem!

As some reviewers said «the last stop for junk.» I love junk and some of the collectibles that you can find if you know how to pick! I picked up a 1952 Phillips bike here and carried it to my hotel room. I’ll be back!

This store offends all my senses (including my sense of humanity), but I keep finding good stuff so I keep coming back. Bring a pair of gloves for digging in the bins, and for the love of god don’t shop from other people’s carts.

The other reviewers are correct that this is NOT your typical thrift store.
You have to be willing to dig. Wear some gloves and get in there. I have found antique radios for $ 4 dollars that sell on ebay for $ 65 — $ 100. I’ve gotten lamps, picture frames, shelves, etc. Not every trip will produce items like these, but you’ll never find them if youd don’t look! There are a ton of items like Christmas ornaments and decorations that are in great shape, some even still in boxes that since they don’t weigh much will cost you a nickel. They have a large selection of books, and I personally enjoy the vintage cook books you can find. If you are on a fixed income, or just like to dig for deals this is a place for you.
I’m not one of their «hardcore» shoppers, but I like to skim the bins and see what I can find. The hardcore shoppers are very protective of their carts, they wear thick gloves, and they are on a mission. So don’t touch any carts, even if they look unattended. I’ve been yelled at a few times by fellow shoppers for even moving their carts out of the way. LOL
It’s definitely an experience, but I love it!

This is not a normal thrift store.. It is the last stop for junk. Items are literally dumped into large wheeled bins, and customers move along, many wearing gloves, sifting through the junk as they move down the rows. On one hand, it’s an interesting experience.. you’re likely to find anything from pieces of a nostalgic toy to a broken appliance. On the other hand, it’s not a place you go looking for a specific item. If you do happen to find things you want, they are priced by the pound-​you wheel your cart onto a scale to determine the cost at checkout. It’s a noisy and chaotic place, definitely not recommended for the novice thrift shopper!

This is not a regular Goodwill by any means. Take all the junk that doesn’t sell at a regular goodwill, add stuff too broken to even put out, dump it into giant bins and you have the goodwill outlet. The only reason to go here would be the decent selection of furniture, and computers. The computers are cordoned off into their own area. The place is filled with people just sifting through junk before it goes to the landfill, save your time and go to Valley Thrift across the street.

Went in this place one time and it will be the last. There is nothing but JUNK in this place. Stuff that is not good enuff for the retail stores.
Plan on wearing rubber gloves.

I definitely prefer the regular ol’ Goodwill we’re all used to. Or even better yet, Village DIscount Thrift Store or Valley Thrift Store across town. This place had that thrift store smell, for sure. Maybe because everything is piled in big bins. And when a new bin full of crap comes out from the back, you best stand clear, or get trampled! There was even a security guard standing by just waiting for a fight to break out between trash-​pickers in there!

I love the bins… started going to the one in Seattle when I was living out there… moved to Dayton a few months ago and was super stoked to find out there was one here… you never know what you might find but that’s why it’s fun… if your looking for a certain item it’s prolly not the place to go… but if you want to kill an hour and look threw random stuff it’s a blast… we always find a few random things there every time… VHS tapes, records (Mc5s kick out the jams 1^st press in super good shape), book, styrofoam heads, pizza cutter, random cool little toys, stone cold Steve Austin water bottle!!!
Only 4 stars cause I seamed to find better stuff at the Seattle bins…

Might as well call it a garbage dump. Items are not hung up neatly on racks or put on shelves for easy shopping. Everything is thrown in bins on long tables helter skelter.
This brings out the true animal in people. Just navigating the aisles is a risk. People are picking up items and throwing them aside to get at items underneath. Any move to get in and try to look for items puts your safety at risk.
There are a few old furniture items and a small books area. The rest is in the bins. No appliances of any kind.
If you feel like moshing for trash this is the place for you, otherwise stay away.

The Goodwill Outlet has a lot of decent furniture at extremely low prices – even compared to other thrift stores – as well as bicycles. I noticed there was a computer section staffed by people who actually know about computers, so that’s always nice. And both sections are separated from the GIGANTIC BINS OF JUNK, so you can actually get to them without dealing with that whole mess.
Aside from that, I was NOT impressed. I was seriously depressed, in fact. I literally saw a book that was inside a rusty toaster, which were both inside A SHATTERED LAMP. This was not the exception; this was the standard. I have never, ever seen such piles of rubbish being SOLD anywhere but the dump, and have never seen so many people ready to knock you down flat if you’re «in the way» of the incredibly frightening, stained and torn painting of a ballerina (for example) that they’re after. It looks like an F5 blew threw this place. No joke.
Save yourself the «OH MY GOD» claustrophobic horror-​time (because IF you do find something, it’s seriously going to be a real diamond in the VERY rough, and even for the frugal, this is a bit too sad of a place to go mining for buried treasure), and go to a proper Goodwill, or the totally fabulous Valley Thrift that is DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET. That places rocks the casbah.

Think,… «last chance before the landfill» when you dare venture to this massive recycling center. Its all the «worst of the worst» junk that could not find a person to purchase it at a regular Goodwill store. The store is totally unorganized and every item from a broken lamp to board games with all the pieces missing is heaped onto large blue sorting bins. The merchandise (one mans junk is another’s treasure) is sold by the pound, for those that cant seem to get enough of a bad thing.
The store does deserve some credit for finding a place for this stuff before it gets scrapped, and it helps people in need with the proceeds. There is a computer section of the store that has motherboards, monitors, sound cards, and many cables organized and binned for easy navigation, this is a sectioned off part of the store and almost like a hospital clean room in comparison to the rest of the store. This is worth checking out.