American Thrift Store - Passaic - Passaic, New Jersey

Lindsey Smith

This used to be one of my favorite stores until the past 2 years or so when prices skyrocketed to be 30% higher or more. I'm very selective of what I buy here now and only buy the 50% off colors of the day. Despite getting the items for free and packing the racks so much you can hardly move the clothes, prices are only increasing. No matter what any of the owner replies will tell you, this is solely down to greed — it's laughable that the copy/paste reply is they have the best and most fair prices. Again, the items are given to them for free! There is no need to price things so high, you'll make a profit no matter what. They really like to advertise to upper class folks who want to buy name brand items for cheaper.

But the good news is there are plenty of affordable thrift stores you could go to instead. This is one of the most expensive "thrift stores" I've ever visited in NJ. Also be sure to check everything over! There are so many things with stains and rips that they're still priced at $15-$100 (photo attached)! Also be wary of the fake designer goods with the yellow tags (photo attached). No one is authenticating these items. If it seems too good to be true it is!

I do enjoy visiting and have found some lovely items for myself but I don't go as often due to how much prices have increased.

Julian B

thanks to the gentrifiers this place has become insanely expensive. “depop” ahhhh store charging insane prices for mid items. if y’all wanna cater to a certain crowd get tf out of passaic.

Emily M

I love this store. I have been coming here for years and travel almost 40 minutes to get here. They have so many nice items that are in great condition. One employee named Marlenis was a great help very friendly and polite she helped me find what I needed in the store like bags, pictures, jewelry and will explain how I can safe more money . I give the store 3 stars because some clothes were not washed and SOME of the clerks did not help me at all they send me to someone else... but other than that this store is great and you will find what you need.

Alexandra Torrez

I loved to come there all these years. A good price for everything. I'm glad mostly color discounts what they have. I’m a little disappointed a waiting in a long line through a fitting room and cashier on weekdays and weekends matter what time when you come. My favorite place is to go there.

Ibel Thorns

I went here to look for some black pants for work, unfortunately I wasn't able to find anything that fit me. I'm a size 16, I wasn't able to find any parts over size 14. Most were 8 and 10 under. So if you're on the bigger side, I wouldn't be too hopeful about finding clothes here. They have quite a bit of a selection tho, I did find the curtains I was looking for and most prices are good. I saw a lot of clothes for 8 dollars under, and I saw a couple for 40$ plus. Overall a good place to go to for shirts and other miscellaneous stuff. I'll return again when I'm looking to refresh my closet.

Edit: yes, it's true nothing is organized by size, only color, so be prepared to sort to the whole rack to find something in your size.

Gracie Grace

I don't normally leave reviews but I'm pretty torn about this place. My family and I found some really nice things and it was generally affordable in my opinion. HOWEVER, our experience with the staff and the way we were treated was pretty horrible. I'm not a Karen, so typically I understand that employees are under stress and I don't take it personally but this was different.

When we came in, they had big carts available downstairs and an elevator to the other floors which many people were using. By the time we were done shopping, we had a full cart. When we went back to the elevator, it was shut down and said out of service. It said there was a secondary elevator in the back if needed for strollers and carts. Of course things like this happen- no problem. We seek out an employee and the first one we found told me she didn't speak English (which was a lie, because I heard her speaking English later on). We weren't being rude at all, either. The second one we found said both elevators were broken and out of service and that she couldn't help me. Meanwhile, two minutes later we see the employees using the elevator for moving product around while people with strollers and carts are standing there waiting in dismay. They continued shutting it off to the customers. I don't understand how you can offer an elevator and carts to customers only to not allow them to use it to get back downstairs.

Next, we got yelled at by an employee for then trying to deal with our situation by putting some items back so we can carry everything downstairs (because we put some things down where they didn't belong). I understand that can be frustrating for employees, but they had no return rack and the store is huge. Putting things back exactly where they belonged would be very difficult on our own.

One of the employees then told us to take our things to the dressing room, which we didn't even know existed. Learning that one existed, my sister decided she'd try a few things on to help make her decision and for that giant store there is only 3 stalls in the dressing room so the wait was long.

When we got all of our items downstairs (using the stairs) the line wrapped around the entire store. I know that can't really be helped, it's a popular place, but it was just the cherry on top of a shopping trip that ended up taking 3 hours instead of 1 because of all the times we were greatly inconvenienced. The only nice employee I encountered was my cashier.

Jasmine

I've been going here for at least 3 years, I actually furnished most of my house coming here. But within the last year or so, the prices have gotten out of control on REGULAR no name brand items even. Nothing you got for FREE would be sold for over $50, in my opinion. They have enough business and inventory to lower their prices to be reasonable.

It's also gotten very hectic because there's TOO MUCH inventory, and people are just digging into everywhere.

To here on a week day for the best experience. Not sure which day they restock.

Bigo Lames

Advertisement made this place popular, it isn't great prices for used clothes its expensive actually.. extremely expensive if a family was in need for affordable clothing.. They have a fitting room and rest room and the place is neat only reason for 3 stars . please don't go out your way to attend this place, isn't great for trendy affordable items also.it's just a place if you're in the area you can make a stop and maybe get lucky with a few items..