The Depot MN 56470

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Llewelyn Smithers

STOP TRYING TO GET NEAR FULL RETAIL FOR STUFF THAT IS DONATED!!!!!!!!!!! You guys went from a store that sold couches for $10 and hand tools for $1 each, to trying to sell liquidation furniture up to $1,000 and tools new in box for above retail price, $200+. Your used stuff is DONATED to you, you do not have some extremely high overhead, you do not need to ask as much as you are, you also need to stop with the stupid “no offers allowed anymore” you have stuff that has been sitting in the same spot for nearly 18 months straight. I’m getting real sick and tired of this place following in the footsteps of places like Goodwill. They start off with a good idea and mission, get a healthy amount of followers, then get greedy and start to rake people over the coals.

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Sam Pierce

UPDATE: they managed to ruin the store even more today, and I’m changing my review from two stars to one star. If I could give them zero, I would. They decided to re-organize the back area, which is now less than half as big as it was after the first time they updated it. So it is less than a quarter of the original size of the back area. I don’t get what they think they’re gaining by that. All of their unique stuff is also now being researched online for price before they post their own price on it. That would be fine if they asked something reasonable, but they’re not. If there is a tool that is $50 new, and they want to sell it as a used functioning tool, they shouldn’t be getting any more than 50% of new price. Instead, they are selling it for $45. I don’t think I’ll be stopping in here anymore, I thought they would realize the mistake they made by making the DAC area bigger. But instead, they decided to double down and hurt their business even more. Maybe in summer when they realize they should have just built an addition onto the building, or move that area to a totally separate building, I might stop back then. I really wish they would have just built an addition onto the building for the DAC people. I used to come here all the time when they had the entire back area open for building materials, etc. I bought an absolute ton of stuff here regularly. Now, with over half of the store being cut off and dedicated to DAC people, their inventory is extremely limited. The one thing that irritates me the most, though, is the fact that they have signs posted everywhere that says “we are no longer accepting offers. It is our job at DAC to provide the best experience shopping, blah blah, blah blah blah “. But essentially it says that because the money goes to a good cause you can’t make any offers on anything anymore. Which is just flat out stupid. Some of their pricing is insanely outrageous. They are a thrift store that gets stuff donated for free. If something is worth $500 new, that does not mean they should ask $500 for it. It means they should ask $125 for it. Especially because the condition of the furniture that’s there is obviously very well used and never worth what they are asking. They also decided to start offering liquidation furniture at discount prices. I think that was a pretty stupid move on their part because now yet again, they are reducing the floor space for other item. In its current state, it’s basically an overpriced furniture store with overpriced junk. It really pains me to say that, but that’s what it is. Every once in a while you’ll find a decent deal on something, but you only will buy something maybe 1 out of 3 trips here since it’s just not worth their asking price most of the time.

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Jack K

Nice place, you never know what you'll find! I was lucky to find audio books, a hammer (which I had been looking for to drive tent pegs) and some fishing equipment. I could also play with a very nice cat and have a chat with the store's staff!