Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette

What an absolutely terrible store. This place used to be much better, but in typical Goodwill fashion they got incredibly greedy and ruined this store.I don t even know where to begin. Their prices are obscene and most of anything worth buying is funneled out of the store so that nobody locally can buy it. This is why most of the stuff in Goodwill is either Target donations priced higher than Target could sell, or broken, damaged or cheap crap left over from yard sales.Everything you touch is damaged in some way, or has something wrong with it. They check nothing and do not care.If you want to pay the same as eBay and get a worse product, this is the store for you. They do not care about anything but profits and think they are direct competitors with Amazon and eBay.Stay far, far away. Go to literally any other second hand store. This is by far the worst place in Albany, Corvallis and Lebanon.Also don t forget they fired EVERY disabled person who worked for them, but left the posters with their faces on them in the entry way to scam customers into thinking they are helping the community.

I emailed and then spoked to a Ashley about jobs, resumes and making an appointment, given my info etc then after all this, she never responded with anything but empty promises, i even wanted to attend a job fair but told me not to that just let her know to set up an appointment and I did let her know I would like to set up an appointment but never did. Have emails to prove. Goodwill does NOT help as they should. Sure given me few job leads but nothing and i did fill out and i an on disability so i was hoping they could help cause the workforce doesn t really want to work a lot with those under disability. Again NOT helpful. May be time to write the corporate office .

EDIT 1: this is no longer a place for cheap books even, like most Goodwill's it has become about making a big profit instead of having good deals. Try and other thrift store.If your looking for a plethora of good deals, this might not be your store. The upside is quite a few good prices books, new books almost everyday in the whole fiction section. It's also decently sanitary. obviously it's a thrift store, so wear gloves if you dont like germs! The employees are all very nice. The biggest issue is the severe lack of 50% stickers on items. There is little to no same color stickers on the half off day. Items that were at one point, a blue sticker on a yellow day, are now yellow on a blue day. The second issue is the outrageously inconsistent price ranges. All in all, it's a goodwill, what do you expect?