Vancouver General Hospital Thrift Store

Humble, good prices, caring staff and volunteers. Edited to add that they always have wonderful background music playing too.

Great location and great deals. The (volunteer!) staff are friendly and helpful, and the items are well-curated: despite a large volume of donations, much of dubious worth (you can see it piling up at the rear entrance,) the staff works hard to sort and organize and real junk does not make it onto the shelves. Bonus - often local shops like Pulp Fiction, and Red Cat Records will donate items so you can will periodically find exceptional deals on books and vinyl. Pricing is extremely reasonable keeping in mind this is a non-profit raising money for the local hospital. When valuable items come in they are not garage-sale priced, having said that I found a box of collectable dishes for $50 (4 place settings for 4 plus some extra plates!)

First time coming by, I thought it was a decent store to look for stuff, similar to that of salvation army and spca thrift stores. But for the VGH. Lots of parking at the back, there is also a lot of places you can choose to goto eat, Mexican, Thai, vietnamese, pizza, all along hastings.

Sometimes you can find a treasure. The prices are certainly good and it's for a good cause.

Very well organized and clean. Staff here are very friendly and helpful. The price is VERY reasonable compared to some other big brand thrift stores. Will come and visit it regularly.