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Thrift Stores

Santa Cruz Sentinel Reader’s Choice Award Winner and Good Times Best Thrift Store

New Hours as of May 1, 2023:  10:00am to 4:30pm. Stores are open every day, Monday through Sunday (except open till 12-noon Christmas Eve Dec 24, and closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day).

Click here to view the new route map for dropping off E-Waste, Recycling and Donations

Household donations accepted every day 7:30am-2pm. Check out the rotating daily and weekly 50%-Off sale items updated on our facebook page, including:

  • Every day: shoes $10 in store; purses $3-$5; wood and office chairs $5; hats $2
  • 50%-Off clothing and/or fill a bag of clothes for $13 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
  • 50%-Off furniture Wednesdays and Saturdays
  • Fill a bag of books every day for $12

Storewide 50%-off sale every 2nd Saturday of the month. Check the Latest Program Updates for special sales and events.

Computer Electronics Store

  • Refurbished computers: PC desktop, laptops, notebooks, iMac, MacBook Pro all with operating systems installed, tablets, iPods, iPhones, mp3 players and more.
  • Computer peripherals and components: monitors, printers, speakers, hard drives, chargers, cables, mice, keyboards and other electronics, etc.
  • LCD/Smart TVs, TVs with DVD/VHS players built in.
  • Audio gear: complete stereo systems, amplifiers, speakers, DVD, VHS and CD players, vintage radios, digital and analog telephones, hundreds of DVD and Blu-ray movies, CDs, vinyl, audio books and other media.
  • Computer gaming systems, XBox, Playstations, Wii  and vintage systems.

Bookshop

  • Browse through 9,000+ books in every genre in the bookshop, and
  • 7,000 titles in our Amazon.com store.

Your thrift store donations and purchases support the Healthy Food Program while helping Grey Bears and our community fight climate change.

Chanticleer Ave. is being paved June 15 – 18.
Expect 15 minute delays when trying to access Grey Bears.


  • Pedestrian and bicycle access only, Weds., June 17
  • All vehicle access to the Grey Bears campus will be closed, Weds., June 17
  • The thrift store will remain open all days
  • No food distribution Tues., Weds. and Thurs.
  • Light lunch only Tues., Weds. and Thurs.
  • Normal operations resume Friday, June 19

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