Salvation Army Family Store Glen Innes

I was actually really impressed when I walked into the Salvation Army today in Glen Innes — what used to be quite a hard-​to-​navigate jumble of junk is now an extremely tidy selection of quite good quality second-​hand goods. The books are all sorted by genre, the clothes are sorted by type of garment, and everything is well marked with a price. Speaking of price, I was also pretty impressed by this — even though the service and the standard of the shop has become higher, they haven’t compromised with their prices which is something I appreciate. There is also heaps of good quality furniture and crockery available, so if you are furnishing a new flat near by then I would definitely recommend stopping in here first and taking a look to see what you might find.

She’s a pretty rough old op shop but she does her best.
As a general rule of op shopping, if you want to good stuff, shop in the places where the well-​to-​do donate their expensive, unworn castoffs. The rule holds true for the Salvos in GI, which is what you’d expect really; people in this suburb have more essential things to spend their money on than label clothing.
It’s a pretty big shop though, and fairly well organised too, so if you’re among the hardier type of op-​shopper you might just be lucky here. The clothes feature a high prevalence of such sought-​after labels as Pagani, Garage, and Shanton, and if you’re lucky, a little bit of Glassons action. Also, there are plenty of second hand sheets and duvet covers. Snuggly.
Selling the poor their worn-​out clothes back to them does get up my nose a bit, but I guess the Salvos do good work with the profits, so I wouldn’t completely avoid this place.