America's Thrift Stores
A for-profit thrift retail chain, founded in 1984 and based in Birmingham, Alabama, that collects donated goods via 2,500+ locations and resells them in stores across 35 southeastern US markets.
America's Thrift Stores is a for-profit thrift retail chain founded in 1984 and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The company collects donated goods through a network of more than 2,500 donation locations - including community donation centres, in-store donation points and free home pickups - and sells them through retail stores across 35 markets in the Southeastern United States, spanning Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana. It employs more than 1,000 people.
The business rests on two connected operations. Its thrift retail stores sell gently used clothing, furniture, household items and electronics, with floors organised by department, category and size; more than 10,000 unique items are added to each store every day. The donation network supplying those stores keeps over 45m pounds of goods out of landfills a year, placing the company within the secondhand retail and reuse sectors as well as conventional retail.
America's Thrift Stores operates a charitable model within a for-profit structure, contributing a portion of profits to six charity partners: Make-A-Wish Alabama, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Home of Grace, Louisiana Adult & Teen Challenge, Adult & Teen Challenge Mid-South and Make-A-Wish Middle Tennessee. The company states commitments to environmental sustainability, community impact and affordability, and describes its store format as an elevated thrift experience. Its tagline is "Where it's a new store every day".