Hundred of donated items are getting a new chance for a new home after a long-awaited discount thrift outlet centre finally opened in southeast Calgary.
On Saturday morning, hundreds of thrifters lined up outside the Goodwill Industries new outlet location for the Bins grand opening at the Impact Centre on 57 Avenue.
“This is a truly unique shopping experience. We knew there’d be interest in it, but the numbers are incredible,” said Goodwill president and CEO Dale Monaghan. Calgary’s Goodwill impact centre is the second location in western Canadian coming six years after the country’s first location opened in Edmonton.According to Monaghan, everything that is being sold inside the centre, from furniture, to clothing and toys has spent four weeks at one of the many Calgary’s Goodwill retail locations.“What doesn’t sell comes to here to the pound store and what we do is now sell it by the pound,” said Monaghan.
“It’s a second chance for the generosity of all the donors to find a shopping opportunity for others. And again, we sell it by the pound so the boats come in, they’re in for only a specific short period of time, and then they leave so you have to be quick and jump on an opportunity.” Items are sorted by clothing, shoes, toys, movies and music and put into long-blue bins. Those bins are then catered out to the public every 25 minutes. Whatever thrifters take is then weighed and priced at $1.35 per pound.
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