Thrifty Shopper

Former Chappells/Fallas/AJ Wright/CW Price

Outlet at Shop City Plaza in Syracuse

 Thrifty Shopper is the charity shop chain based in my area, and their footprint has expanded beyond Central New York around the I-81/NY 12/79/34/5/(US) 20/414/104/3/12 corridor covering a third of Upstate, going from the North Country, to the Mohawk Valley, to Southern Tier/Twin Tiers, to the Finger Lakes, and back.  There are still a few spots left to fill.  The two Oneida County stores don't have the Rescue Mission logo on the front, likely to avoid confusion with unrelated Rescue Missions in main cities Rome and Utica (New Hartford).  All but a couple national competitors remain in the whole region (the Cicero store on NY 31 used to be a St Vincent de Pauls).  There are no stores yet in Madison County, while there used to be a donation center at the Walmart in Oneida (the Auburn and Camillus ones still have theirs).  Thrifty Shopper will never be seen outside 315 (3fifteen is the name of two boutique locations on SU Hill and in Camillus) or 607, yet they are a monopoly mostly keeping out the national chains, outnumbering two of them combined in Onondaga County alone, as well as indies run by churches or smaller registered charities.

Canastota - former Family Dollar, NY 5 & CR 25

Elbridge - former Family Dollar, NY 5

Fulton - former kmart, River Glen Plaza, NY 481

Former locations (some were taken from an old donation bag displayed at 3fifteen on Marshall St. Only Auburn has been in the same place unless that moved as well since it's not that small a town. The old Big M in East Syracuse was listed as a drop-off site long before Wegmans up the street and around the county took over until 2023 and that Big M became a Thrifty Shopper itself by the end of the millennium):

Syracuse (Lyncourt) - Thrifty Shopper Outlet, Shop City Plaza; previously Chappells, AJ Wright, CW Price and Fallas; now Black Friday Bins (pictured)

Syracuse (Eastwood) - Eastwood Plaza, NY 290; closed 1999; later Café Kubal and Sacred Melody (until June 2023; soon to be Eastwood Home)

Cicero - US 11; now various businesses

Liverpool (Galeville) - Electronics Pkwy & Old Liverpool Rd; previously Carls and Fays, now Palm Market. May have been another location in plaza decades before.

Watertown - Stateway Plaza, NY 3; TBD

Fairmount (2010s) - W Genesee St; TBD

Westvale - NY 5, not the same as current location (former Sears Hardware)

North Syracuse - US 11, Northern Lights Plaza

East Syracuse - NY 290, Fremont (probably plaza that now has Dollar General and barber shop)

deWitt - NY 5, Shoppingtown (likely before 1975 when plaza converted to mall)

Liverpool (Bayberry) - CR 57, Hiawatha Plaza; not the same as current location (former Herb Phillipsons)

Manlius - NY 173?

Syracuse (south side) - US 11, Valley Plaza

Syracuse (east side) - Nottingham Plaza

Fairmount - Fairmount Fair