Dyess Thrift Shop

(28Jan20) They've moved to the family child care building right next door to the Airmen and Family Readiness Center. The uniform items are in the AFRC building and all other goods are in the child care building. My understanding is that the thrift store building is undergoing renovations.

Amazing place with wonderful people that work here or volunteer here. Great prices they are truly out to help everyone. If you are an airman your uniforms are free!

Great atmosphere and awesome people who help us out during our visits... :)

Plenty of useful things with very good prices, meant for the people.

The staff is always super friendly. Prices are always really low. It's just uncomfortably cramped in some of the rooms.

I love shopping at the thrift store. They always have great merchandise.

Its okay. Has good and bad here's the good... Staff is friendly and the store is organized well. Nice selection of goods. Good prices on housewares. Now for the bad. Hours are odd and change a lot. There is a horrid smell (pet urine is what came to mind) thru out the whole place. Pricing is not consistant. Prices are a bit high for all clothing items. Especially considering this is a base thrift store not a goodwill store where they have huge overhead. If I had a say I would 1.have the carpets cleaned 2. Use air fresheners 3. Lower the cost of the clothing/shoes 4. Have regular sales like every Thursday half price "fill in the blank" and every Tuesday "fill a bag with anything for 5 bucks" 5. Have consistent. Hours (get more volunteers). 6. Have clothing drives where once every 3 or 6 months a volunteer drives thru base housing and picks up donations at the curb.

To small and weird hours

Some great finds and money goes to a great cause

It is a small thrift shop. And it is crowded place and not so many product available. I was there for close to 2 hr to see all the items. During 2 hour visit, no new item added to shelves as far as I could see. I am guessing recently they did not receive enough donations. I was mostly looking for electronics. Just could see a broken square payment system, an old tv, a cable keyboard and a tv remote available. From the electronics area jumped to shoe area. Not good condition ones were there. After that jumped to kids' toy section, few toys but nothing special. After this section went to books area and nothing was special again. Checked kitchen stuff area and other then water glasses, there was nothing mostly covering shelves. I spent 2 hours in total here to see if i miss any item and checked everywhere twice.

I have a friendly suggestion to the crew; do not keep seasonal big items like big Christmas trees in store since you guys have limited small area. When i was in store recognized that almost quarter of the store was occupied with big Christmas trees. You guys can show these items outside the store like you do for bikes and coolers.