They are providing us with pre-processed, pre-priced, pre-sorted products,” Brown explained. Bins out back are overflowing with more clothing to be processed and priced. The store doesn’t open until Friday, but it is already filled with items for sale, thanks to the Goodwill Industries International organization, which has helped Brown set up his new store.
“All proceeds stay in Kingston,” Brown stressed. He figures somewhere around 23,000 motorists will drive past the new store along Division Street each day on their way to or from well-paying jobs, and he is counting on them to be the donors of the used clothing, toys, electronics, books and housewares that will be for sale inside to help out families that aren’t so well off.Īll of the profits will go to organizations in Kingston that help people get retrained, re-educated or re-employed. “We want it to be seen,” said Brown, the CEO of Brown’s Dining Solutions, which had occupied the section of the building that now houses the thrift store. With walls painted orange, blue, green and yellow, The Goodway thrift store at 844 Division St. There will be no chance of driving past Phillip Brown’s new venture and not noticing it.
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