GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — After shoppers comb through items at a new Grand Rapids thrift store, they won’t be paying for their finds per item — they’ll be paying for it by the pound.
Late last year , the Salvation Army reopened its Main Thrift Store, located at 1491 Division Ave. near Stevens Street, after it closed prior to the pandemic. Now, it’s opened a By The Pound Outlet inside the same building.
It’s an effort to give donations that didn’t sell new life.
The region’s Salvation Army thrift stores will send over all of their products that don’t sell after a four-week rotation. From there, everything is placed in bins in the By the Pound Outlet, where shoppers can hunt for treasures.
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Shoes are priced at $3 each, and furniture is priced as marked. But everything else will be thrown onto a scale and weighed, with shoppers paying $1.89 a pound — or less, if they’re buying items in bulk.
Salvation Army previously opened a By the Pound Outlet in that location in the spring of 2023, closing it a few months later after it didn’t have a lot of success. But Envoy Jacqulynn Idzior, the administrator for business for the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center of Grand Rapids, said there was a great turnout when it reopened on Feb. 1…