thrift shop
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Now the Quarter Store in town is a thrift shop run by volunteers where everything costs a quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
And then someone took me to a thrift shop, and my life changed.”
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2025
They also offer a closet-sorting service, which involves coming to a person's home and sorting through unwanted clothing, to rescue items fit for sale at their pop-up thrift shop.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025
In the mid-20th century, the league operated the Wise Penny thrift shop on Capitol Hill.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
“The clothes weren’t even secondhand, so much as third- or fourth-hand. There was a pretense here. It’s like she went to a thrift shop and searched for Eighties Prep. I mean, a monogrammed sweater?”
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
