Treasure hunters, bargain enthusiasts, and the perpetually thrifty have a mecca in Cary, North Carolina, and it goes by the name of Dorcas Thrift Shop.
This isn’t just any secondhand store where you might find a dusty paperback or your uncle’s discarded bowling shirt.
This is the kind of place where shoppers have been known to perform little victory dances in the aisles after scoring vintage designer handbags for less than the price of a fancy coffee.
When North Carolinians talk about thrift shopping, Dorcas inevitably enters the conversation, usually accompanied by wide eyes and tales of “the find” – that magical moment when someone discovered a pristine Le Creuset dutch oven for pennies on the dollar…