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Goodwill Opening Edmonds Store in QFC Shopping Center; Donations Welcomed
The retail thrift shop will offer free recycling of electronic items such as TVs and computers. A donation truck is now accepting items in the parking lot.
Goodwill Industries, a nonprofit organization that offers social services but is best known for its retail thrift stores and drop boxes, is opening a location in Edmonds.
The store, in the QFC Shopping Center at 10117 Edmonds Way, will occupy the former space of Smart Buys at Stupid Prices, which closed all of its stores in Washington and California in 2009. Before that store, the location housed an antique mall.
Goodwill in Edmonds will open Dec. 1, says store manager Joann Conrad, who previously managed the Goodwill store in Lynnwood on 198th Street SW. The inside is now being remodeled, and a delivery ramp is being constructed.
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The new Goodwill joins more than 2,400 nationwide specializing in donated clothing and household goods, among other items such as books and CDs. (Goodwill also has an online auction site, shopgoodwill.com.)
Donations are now being accepted in Goodwill’s parking lot from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The donation site is operated by Goodwill employee and Edmonds resident Tim Glass.
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According to Edmonds Goodwill retail manager Nicole Roberts, the store will operate as an e-waste recycler, accepting TVs and computer monitors, printers and other computer accessories.