Thrift Store Chains & Brands

Goodwill

2,408 locations in our directory

Goodwill is not one company but a network of more than 150 independent regional nonprofits across the US and Canada, each operating its own stores, donation centers, and job-training programs. Revenue from the stores funds employment services — job coaching, résumé help, and skills training — in the region where you shop or donate.

Pictured: Nolensville, TN

Habitat for Humanity ReStore

886 locations in our directory

Habitat ReStores are home-improvement thrift stores run by local Habitat for Humanity affiliates. They sell furniture, appliances, cabinets, doors, windows, lighting, and building materials — much of it donated by contractors, retailers, and homeowners mid-renovation. Proceeds fund Habitat’s home construction and repair work.

Pictured: Jefferson, GA

The Salvation Army Family Store

776 locations in our directory

The Salvation Army’s thrift stores — branded Family Stores — fund its Adult Rehabilitation Centers, residential recovery programs for people overcoming addiction. The stores are one of the oldest and largest thrift operations in the country.

Pictured: Beacon, NY

Plato's Closet

401 locations in our directory

Plato's Closet is a buy-sell-trade franchise (Winmark Corporation) focused on current-style clothing for teens and young adults. Stores buy gently used, on-trend items outright and resell them at roughly 50–70% off mall retail.

Pictured: Carson City, NV

Once Upon A Child

389 locations in our directory

Once Upon A Child (also a Winmark franchise) buys and resells kids’ clothing, shoes, toys, and baby gear. It pays cash on the spot for items that meet current safety standards and style/condition cuts.

Pictured: Okemos, MI

Savers / Value Village

221 locations in our directory

Savers (branded Value Village in some markets) is a for-profit thrift retailer. It buys donated goods by the pound from nonprofit partners — the donations you drop at a Savers community donation center are credited to a partner charity, and the store resells them.

Pictured: Lawrence, KS

Uptown Cheapskate

57 locations in our directory

Uptown Cheapskate is a fashion-exchange franchise buying and reselling young-adult clothing and accessories, positioned slightly more premium than its competitors — think mall brands up through entry designer.

Pictured: Burleson, TX

St. Vincent de Paul

55 locations in our directory

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a Catholic charity organized into local "conferences," many of which run thrift stores. Store revenue funds direct assistance — rent, utilities, food — for neighbors in need, and stores often provide free goods via voucher to people referred by the society.

Pictured: Houma, LA

Deseret Industries

42 locations in our directory

Deseret Industries is the thrift operation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, concentrated in the western US. Stores double as vocational training sites, and revenue supports welfare and humanitarian programs.

Pictured: Shoreline, WA

Arc Thrift Stores

40 locations in our directory

Arc Thrift Stores operates across Colorado, funding The Arc’s advocacy programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities — and it is one of the state’s largest employers of people with IDD.

Pictured: Albuquerque, NM

Style Encore

27 locations in our directory

Style Encore is the women’s resale brand in the Winmark franchise family (alongside Plato’s Closet and Once Upon A Child). Stores buy gently used women’s clothing, shoes, handbags, and accessories outright — brand-name, current styles in excellent condition — and resell them well below retail.

Pictured: Davenport, IA

Buffalo Exchange

18 locations in our directory

Buffalo Exchange is a curated buy-sell-trade chain in urban markets, known for a sharper fashion edit than volume thrift — vintage, designer, and current trend pieces selected by trained buyers.

Pictured: Hawthorne, FL

America's Thrift Stores

16 locations in our directory

America's Thrift Stores is a southeastern US chain (Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana) that partners with charities: goods are collected on behalf of nonprofit partners, purchased from them, and resold — so shopping and donating both generate charity revenue.

Pictured: Opelika, AL