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Message:: [QUOTE="terry5732, post: 4819449, member: 42"]I do not remember any good days at Illwill All of them in this area were rebuilt to massive size in the last twenty years. Dozens more massive ones were built. Often they were built in sight of the old ones. They bought out small thrift stores. Shopping these huge stores is always a waste of time. They get the bulk of the donations but have little for sale. Usually half of what they have is new, off brand products that were donated by stores to get write offs. The Salvation Army stores around here are largely stocked with damaged returns. It seems all they get for public donations is garage sale leftovers. The Savers stores were the place to find stuff once in a while. But each store has gotten to backroom dealing for most of the good stuff. A local operation was The Association for Retarded Children. Can't say retard anymore so now their name is ARC. They were OK until they started putting stuff on feebay. As the quality in the stores went down the quality and quantity of their donations went down.[/QUOTE]