Seattle Goodwill

Mar 30th, 2024

Lots of goods
Mar 17th, 2024

Mar 2nd, 2024

My two friends and I just went to this GoodWill and were harassed by an employee named Junior. My friend asked about the code for the bathroom and this employee mocked her and was completely rude and disrespectful. When we were checking out he inappropriately flirted with my other underage friend.
Mar 1st, 2024

My family, friends, and I have thoroughly enjoyed this Goodwill location for over 50 years; the spacious interior, neatly organized clothing and shoes, warm and friendly employees. I also have never written an online review. But my experience this evening brought me here. Arriving shortly before 9pm closing time, my daughter and I literally ran from the front doors into the store, knowing we had only 5 minutes of shopping before being shooed to the checkout line. As predicted to my daughter, 9pm revealed the closing shift employees in droves, shooing shoppers to the back of the (increasingly long) line, "store's closed! Proceed to checkout!" Admittedly, some employees are more gentle than others in their delivery; but we'll extend grace as this is the end of their shift -- at a store location where there is nearly constant drama: usually caused by unhoused folks camping inside the store or bathroom, to disturbing verbal altercations (typically well handled by store security), things one gets used to when living in a west coast city. As my daughter and I sauntered to the register area, a few items caught our eye; glancing at the checkout line, now 12 deep, we decided to browse the aisles about 30 feet away from the back of the line. And that is when we were approached by, not the 3rd or 4th employee with the exact same message, but the 5th person, this time store security, who insisted that I, a 50-year old man enjoying a quick thrift store date with my daughter, immediately move to the back of the checkout line (now 10 customers deep). When I informed him that not only was he now the 5th person to tell me the same thing (remember, this is a store that deals with desperate people; that doesn't have resources to deal with typical upstanding citizens), but that we were not getting in anyone's way, and were actually finding new items to purchase from his store. His response completely ignored my patient framing of the situation, and at this point, devolved into full-on Disrespect. In Front of My Daughter. I do not abide disrespect. I DEMAND respect. As I informed this security guard that I would proceed to the back of the line when it shrank down to a few customers, he again repeated his demands, now joined by another employee who himself was repeating the same demand. Asking this employee what it was that my presence, a mere 30 feet from the line, could possibly be hampering, and was informed that I was "getting in the way of store closing"; a clearly demonstrable untruth. Again, this is in front of my (youngest of 4) daughter, who will learn far more from her dad by his actions than his words, as that time tested wisdom echoes. No, I did not acquiesce to being Disrespected. A torrent of righteous indignation was unleashed upon the now three employees ganging up on and harassing a 50-year old man and his daughter on a lovely date. We set our intended purchases down, and exited the store in a blaze of furious vitriol, in my view, well-deserved.
Mar 22nd, 2024