Goodwill Industries

Misleading signs for discounts — walk in the door and they’ll say «Blue tags half price!» Except when you go to pay CLOTHING is NOT half price — normally $ 5.99 they charge $ 3.99. The sign in the front showing the «half price» color has «housewares, etc» in small print. The sign on each rack has a graphic of an ORANGE tag saying $ 3.99 and under it again in very small print it says color of the week. Only the SoCal stores do this… very misleading!

I’m a fan of this location. Im a regular here for sure. Even though prices have gone up within recent years, this place is more often a hit than a miss for me. I love their selection of dresses, jeans, coats, and they have a good selection of halloween costumes during halloween time. Shirts are hard to find sometimes because you have to look through a lot of their stuff. This store is organized and clean. Workers are friendly and willing to help. In particular the older African American man and the cashier makaela. There’s also an African American male that works at the register and he’s really nice. I asked him to hold an item for me for a few hours and when I came back he really had saved it for me. They say they will hold items till the end of the day for you, which is great. They have a big selection of men’s tees for 99 cents and windbreakers, jackets, dressy work attire tops, and lots of Hawaiian tees and collared shirts. I’ve bought a lot of my clothes here as they’ve been brand new with the tags or almost brand new. It can be a little dusty in here a times and on sunny days it’s a little blinding on the men’s clothes side because the buildings side is just long open windows and the sun isn’t blocked by anything. They’re open late, which I like a lot. I will keep coming here and I recommend it.

I know this is a thrift store, but little kids being unprofessional is something that should never happen at a business. Kids, and I use that term loosely, cause they were mostly 20-​somethings, must have smoked during their lunch break because they were acting the fool. Playing on the overhead paging making funny noises and laughing and giggling and talking about personal stuff while ringing up and not paying attention to the paying customers. I’m not one of those people that needs their butt kissed, but come on, bare minimum customer interaction isn’t that hard to do.

Very impressed with this store. I’m a fan of thrift stores in general but not a fan of that thrift store smell.
These places usually smell like musty, month balls «the old people smell». This location did not have that stench. I found the aroma quite refreshing, like a new born baby or puppy fresh.
The staff was super professional and helpful.
I was looking for a Hawaiian shirt. I walked out with 5 for under $ 20.00.
It’s little out of the way but I’ll be back.

The chick at the counter was super sweet! But Goodwill why you so expensive!!! Why I say!?! But I will be back cause I’m addicted to the hunt. Good clean store with easy parking.

most of the items donated by the real charity people are tagged at outrageous high prices, some of the used, re-​used, donated and redonated items, especially the short-​sleeve T shirts, some are tagged at $ 5.99 to $ 9.99. obviously, the people who do the prices tagging don’t know there are stores selling 5 T shirts for $ 10 bucks, and most items they tagged outrageously high could be bought from 99cents stores for 0.99cents. i really don’t treat this retail chain as a charity organization but a wolf-​in-​sheepskin greedy retailer chain. the only attraction of this store chains is NO SALES TAX.

I could go on for hours finding good quality and fashionable clothes. Lately, i’ve been going around to different Goodwills in the area, and this one was one of my top 3.
It’s clean, organized and big. Unlike some small, cluttered, unorganized thrift stores.
What I like more, was when I was checking out my items, they were playing Harry Potter on their big screen tv behind the counter; that alone gives this Goodwill bonus points for me!

As with all thrift stores, it’s a hit-​and-​miss at this smaller Goodwill, but they are well organized and decent turnover. Prices are not as gouged as some other Goodwills, but you still need to watch out for what is a good deal and what’s not; folks need to keep in mind that those pricing the stuff aren’t always that knowledgeable about what they’re pricing. So $ 2 for Mikasa? — good deal. $ 2 for stuff sold at a dollar store? — not a good deal. On the corollary, clothing is typically flat-​priced, so your name brand stuff isn’t marked up either like in other thrift shops.
Definitely worth a visit once in a while, and if you don’t find anything, there are a few other thrift shops just up the street on Garey Ave. Unlike other thrift shops, Goodwill does have a 7-​day exchange on clothing and electrical items; just keep the receipt and tags on the item.
My best finds from this Goodwill include a soymilk maker (barely used), a Hitachi rice cooker (NIB), and a yogurt maker (NIB). Each were under $ 10.

Well, yah, it’s clean, it’s organized. Extremely irritating that clothes are organized by color, and difficult to find things. If this were a fashion store that might make sense, but come on, THIS IS A THIRFT STORE! We all know that when we come in to a thrift store we take what we can get. You don’t go into a thrift store looking for just the right shade of mauve blouse to match your pumps. If you did find it it’d be the wrong style, the wrong size or have a hole in it. You get what’s in your size that’s decent at a decent price when you go to a thrift store. Who on earth thought it was a good idea to sort things by color rather than size?
Any ways, I given up thinking it’s possible to give good marks to a Good Will Store. I will go in occasionally to see what they’ve got, but always get angry and rarely buy things, out of principle. I always find things that are too expensive, and have found things almost as expensive and even more expensive than you can buy new retail stores. I’ve even had to tell them how out of line they are about what they’re charging at times. Saw some glass candle stick holders I had bought at the 99 cent store new that they were selling for several dollars!!! I don’t necessarily need to buy at a thrift store, often don’t have the time, and it doesn’t make sense if I need something specific right away, but why shouldn’t I try to get a better deal on used things if I can?
What really irritates me, though, is that I see people who look rather poor shopping at these places, They maybe don’t have transportation to go elsewhere, so they’ll try to get a good deal there. Why can’t their prices be competitive for them? There’s something special about used stuff from Good Will rather than other places? I don’t think so. If they REALLY want to spread good will around, why not treat the poor as well as other places? They need better deals rather than color coordination and exorbitant prices.

Ridiculously weak Goodwill. Hemet is gross. So. Very. Gross.

A pretty good Goodwill. Its pretty big and the workers are friendly. This place gets such a high score because its so clean and organized. You dont really get that thrift smell and the only complaint i had was that you couldnt really find stuff by sizes because everything was seperated by color/​style of clothing. I found some cool stuff but ended up getting a hat and a dress shirt.
Like others said the prices arent dirt cheap but then its not like a reg thrift store its a goodwill and most of the time their prices are a little higher. But big selection and overall nice store with ample parking in the lot.

WOW!
it is clean in this store and it does not smell like feet. thats a plus. everything is very organized and easy to find.
things are not dirty cheap, but its pretty good. 5.50 for brand name dress shirts (like pierre cardin or van heusen). thats really good since it the quality is nice.
the quality is nice enough to wear to work or school, and no one would know that u got it from a thrift store
oh, plus, they have special sales, like 50% all dresses. great huh?

This here relatively new Goodwill is not unpleasant to visit. There is ample parking and there’s rarely a whole lot of thrifty folk inside.
And it is kept fairly clean and orderly. I don’t really shop for clothing so much, so I can’t comment on what they’ve got. But they do have shirts organized so they look like one of those thermal heat charts – yellow to orange to red, etc. I guess that’s probably good.
The bric-​à-​brac is limited, but I found two nice martini glasses the other day.
And for the vinyl hounds and phonograph flunkies among you, this place. .. um. .. has none. Nope. Not a one.
Ok they have some. Most likely you wouldn’t find anything you wanted right now, but they have gotten some loads in the past that had some neat stuff in them. It’s a pretty small section, so you won’t blacken your tips much getting through them. So maybe you shouldn’t bother? I’ll go ahead and be in charge of making sure they don’t have anything of value.