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Goodwill Industries
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Category: Used, Vintage & Consignment [Edit]
Neighborhoods: Civic Center/Tenderloin, Nob Hill822 Geary Street
(between Hyde St & Larkin St)
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 922-0405
- Hours:
Mon-Sat. 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sun. 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
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15 reviews for Goodwill Industries
Goodwill. How can you not give them 5 stars? Seriously?
Tip: I donate 2x a year. Good for karma, and good for taxes. A win/win situation if there ever was one.
This store is just okay for a small store! Best to shop the on sale color!! Their better quality jeans hang at the register for $24.99+ Heck, I picked up True Religions on sale for $12.00 at Nordstrom Off the Rack! why shop at Goodwill with them darn prices!!
Dialed in advance to see if they carry any microwaves, so I don't waste my time walking down to look at nothing.
"Do you have microwaves?"
"I don't know. Why don't you come and look around."
"Because I..."
"Look I am busy doing my cashier. I don't have time. You come down and look yourself."
"Bu.."
He hangs up.
Objectively, no one should have high expectations of Goodwill. Not even moderate expectations. Goodwill's only virtue is cheapness. Everything else is supposed to suck. Including customer service.
So technically I shouldn't count this retarded customer service against this store. But I am. Because I've been to Goodwills where the service wasn't exactly room service at the 4 Seasons, yet also wasn't straight up rude. Take that subjective opinion for what it's worth.
I will go to another Goodwill. Not this one.
If you are desperate for a deal, just go in and look. Don't call. Don't ask for any help. Otherwise, the rudeness you encounter will detract from whatever good feeling you gain from shopping there.
So, I'm in here the other day, sifting through discarded tops from the usuals: Xhileration, Merino and Old Navy when out from the chaos emerge 4 Michael Stars shirts for $4.95 each. They were like life rafts in a sea of cotton-poly blended refuse from 2003.
And I didn't even come in here with the intention of buying clothes. This store is probably the worst Goodwill I've ever been to. It smells like dirt. They have security officers wandering around because everyone shopping here is talking to themselves. Add to that the distinct sense that the place is infested with fleas, bedbugs and lice.
Deliver all clothing purchases directly to the dry cleaners - do not bring them home. Then deliver yourself to a hot shower.
I was looking for picture frames. I found one, but much like the Michael Stars, I had to work for it. There is a disproportionate amount of sorting through crap required at the Geary Store.
I'm their number one customer. I always find something great here whether it be furniture, clothes, accessories, or Sega Genesis games. Lately, it's been looking super clean and organized! I come here every week, and I love the people and the goods.
And the people who work there are misunderstood - they deal with nonstop shit all day, so cut them some slack. Go shop in Pacific Heights if you can't take the heat.
Beware of the obnoxious man in thick glasses and hat. He looks like Tommy Bahama and talks your mf'ing ear off! He loves giving fashion advice.
Much love to the old fashionista who died off and donated her red suede size 9 AA Ferragamo pumps.
crazy employees, a guard that is too busy watching the wrong patrons.
cramped and stinky, not my favorite thrift store but i seem to find rare records and cutlery. very strange. I've been shopping here for 7 years.
This is definitely the Tenderloin, Yelp Mods. Straighten that shit out, because this stretch of Geary is densely populated with toothless junkies, and doesn't bare even the slightest resemblance to Nob Hill. I've been in here before and seen a security guard wrangle someone to the ground while the poor crackhead screams, "but this is the jacket I walked in with!" until the security guard yanks the VCR from his grasp. I've seen trannies in the most busted sense of the word shopping here... I'm talkin' five day facial hair growth with severe red lips painted over top and awkward tight dresses pulled down over lumpy breasts. I'm just humming along to my Ipod, eyeing the crazies and fingering through filthy stinky clothes to get to the occasional jewel... like the pale yellow cashmere top I bought today for $1.
Housewares, however, may be my true weakness. I saw the mother of all ashtrays today... well, maybe just the auntie of all ashtrays, but the kind that you would steal from a hotel bar, a really big heavy glorious ashtray. I immediately was torn as to whether I should buy it... $5 for an ashtray? I don't even smoke cigarettes... but I do smoke enough pot to support dozens of terrorists and their jihad-friendly families, so I feel justified purchasing it. Now I just need to finish treating it for fleas, scabies and hepatitis, and I'll have the sweetest ashtray in all of the Tenderloin.
This place smells like a nineteen-week old, unwashed jock strap left sitting in a hot Baghdad sun.
...and they never have my (petite) size.
Luckily, my other half is quite skilled with a needle and thread, and can turn even the most dreadful extra-large whatnot into something fabulous.
I would have given them four stars, were it not for the nasty, middle-aged red-head who hails from some former Soviet, Eastern block nation. Picture Borat...with an attitude. Everytime I'm there I know she suspects me of tag-switching. She's always looking me up and down (and not in the 'I so want to get in your kool-aid' way)
Like I really need to switch a tag from $5.45 to $4.95?
Not everyone who shops for bargains is a thief. With that attitude - I'm sure no one will make "sexy-time" with you.
Oh, they have a nice selection of blazers...just check for stains
Really, THE best thrift store to visit for cheap, vintage clothing.
I always find great stuff here and am a monthly regular here.
Nearly missed this place when I went looking for it. In fact the first time I went I actually did!
While this one is closer to me than the SOMA location, it's a really small store with limited options. The women's section is particularly small and a lot of the things they had were disappointing. Although I was looking for something specific, nothing really caught my attention. I have a tendency to come home from thrift stores with more than I planned to buy.
Maybe I came on a bad day. I'll give them 3 stars for proximity.
I hate this Goodwill. I've learned in my years of shopping at (EXTREMELY) used clothing stores that you can't be too fucking picky but there is this fuckin' Russian lady that works there that I swear to god I will punch in the fuckin' face. She is extremely rude to the customers and her coworkers. The customer service in this place is ridiculously shitty. Today I went in and bought a shirt and while at the counter I asked if I could also get the earrings behind the glass. I KNEW WHAT EARRINGS I WAS LOOKING FOR! And she said to me " I do not have time, you wait." Then she pretty much slammed my money into my palm and had the audacity to say "Have a good day". I hate this woman so fuckin much, she is the Cruella De Ville of the Goodwill Industries.
And she makes it unbearable to go in there, the last time before that I went into the dressing room(after about 15 minutes of waiting) and she says "ONLY THREE ITEMS IN THE DRESSING ROOM". As I am calling over my friend to hold the two remaining pieces of clothing I have, she keeps yelling in my face "ONLY THREE!". Then I got a bit snotty, I will admit.
The clothing here isn't bad for a Goodwill but I would just head over to the Pacific Heights Goodwill Store.
Seriously.
Question: Why is it that at most thrift stores there are more women's jeans in the men's jean section?!?! It's totally been bugging me!
This place is like my really good neighbor - when I need a pasta strainer, she's there for me. A floor length mirror? Come on over. Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth on Cassette - you betcha!
It's like a little slice of heaven mixed with a treasure hunt. Now how often do you get that in a shopping experience?
The staff are fairly stupid people. That mixed with the jeans thing I mentioned before is slicing off a star for them, but otherwise - a lot of fun.
I've been here in the past many times to donate clothing and electronic items. However, parking can be challenging since I've made some rounds and not having to find parking up front, I had to lug my stuffs through several blocks in order to donate here.
yeah, is this really nob hill? because i live in the tenderloin, and this is a block up from my house, and this area feels more tenderloiny than where we live.
at any rate, i just found a pair of tails (as in tux and tails) for nine dollars. they're very classy.
even better, though? *boobie cake form*. cake form in the shape of breasts. boobie cake form! i tried to convince my partner that we needed it, but he was dubious.
I've always came out with something when visiting this spot. A little gem that most people don't wanna ventue. Shoot, you cant go wrong with $2 shirts. Right?
