This Salvation Army location in Lakeland is huge, very clean, and extremely well organized. At…read morefirst glance, it looks like you're about to hit the jackpot--but once you start browsing, it feels a bit underwhelming. From a distance the shelves look full, but up close there isn't much that stands out. Kind of a "Mona Lisa effect"--better from afar than up close. That said, the staff was friendly. One woman who worked there--short, wore glasses--was especially kind, though I didn't catch her name. The store is laid out nicely, and they had a lot of furniture available. If you're furniture shopping, this might actually be a good stop; the pieces looked decent and reasonably priced. They also appeared to use a color-tag discount system, though I'm not sure if it changes daily. About half the store was clothing, and the other half was bric-a-brac and furniture. I personally didn't find much this visit, but it could've just been an off day. I'd consider checking back in a couple of weeks to see if inventory changes. I did leave with one fun find: a vintage floating pool drink holder shaped like a rainbow, with space for ice and drinks--super cute and only $5. On the flip side, some prices felt off, like used wrapping paper priced at $3 when you can get a new roll at Dollar Tree for $1. Overall, it's worth checking out, especially for furniture, but don't go in expecting major thrifting treasures. Pretty cool that they are open on a Sunday, though. I will give them that. A medium size parking lot right in front. And a big grassy area if you have a dog that needs to go to the bathroom. Check it out? Definitely! Are there better thrift stores in Lakeland? Definitely!

The place is so clean and well organized. The staff were really nice but these price were not…read morethrift tore prices. I could've gotten these items on at Kohl's on the sale rack and new. I was a little disappointed.

Let me start by saying that I am not a lover of all antique/resell stores. However this one is laid…read moreout nicely with each vendor having their own cubicles. Things were easy to shop visually without having to dig through things. The building has one really large room with two corridors and there are smaller rooms on each end to explore. There were fans set up in many of the booths to help with airflow. Prices were great on some items and higher on other items but all in all I would say that this is a shoppable venue to visit. We had not been to this store before and it's not along a major thoroughfare so if you aren't actively searching for it, you would likely never know it's there. This place is truly a find! The owners/workers were nice and helpful. If you like well organized antique shops, this is a good place for you to visit.

This is a great antique store, laid out nicely, clean and has some very interesting items. Most of…read morethe antique stores are downtown but this one is a little farther south, but well worth the trip.

Amazing gem of a shop, we spent a few hours looking through everything and came away with so many…read moreamazing finds. Highly recommend this place if you're into vinyls, cassettes, 70s, 80s, band tees, shoes, bags, and more. Definitely will be back!

Nice quirky little thrift place. Lots to look at. Just wish they had more variety aside from…read moreclothes.

LOVE LOVE LOVE A friend that was visiting happen to…read morefind it when she was out and about looking at thrift stores and luckily she shared it with me. I absolutely had a fantastic time looking through the vintage clothing and cute little items for my house and garden, and even some incense, so yeah, this is a definite five star selection for me . see the pictures below. I bought a cute Jean jacket with pearls and more

Such a cute store with very reasonable prices! I was shocked at how affordable some of the items…read morewere! The owner is just the nicest too. They always sell smoothies and have a gal that does food I think wed, Thurs and Friday. I bought three cute glasses for my store at $2.99/each and the cutest heart earrings for $4.99! Love how cute it's set up also! I'm a little sad I never stopped before!

First off, know that Goodwill is a company not a charity giving items to the poor & the CEO makes…read more$600,000 or more. I learned this late. If you are donating you should consider giving to actual charities instead of "for profit" enterprises unless you have no other choice. If you do give know less than an 8th of the total profits goes to those in need. Donating is easy here just pull up, unload and go. If you need to get rid of items in a hurry or can't deal with finding just the right place for your items this place may work for you. All that said, sometimes you need to buy inexpensive or items on the fly and you check out Goodwill. We had pretty good luck shopping here at the Lakeland location for a few items. There is a main big room and a secondary smaller room and both share walls with an employee only section. The furniture is in the back room with some household stuff while the front room has clothing for all, accessories , linens, appliances, dishes, small appliances, toys, glasses, etc. They sell some new items that are close outs or extras from companies and donations from individuals. The employee only area is the heart of the operation. The donations come in a door in the drop off area on the outside right side. The stuff is loaded into bins and carried in to be sorted, priced, and later put out. You can't buy things that are newly donated till they are processed. It seems strange to not sell newly donated stuff to willing buyers but they have their protocols. The mark up here is pretty high. Some furniture was too highly priced for condition. There was a ton of linens that could have been gotten for similar prices at discount stores on sale. The selection varies as well as some things are in good condition while some are stained, broken and/or ripped. Employees are nice and friendly for the most part. We dealt with several and most were helpful. You can't blame them that they work hard and the company takes all the money. I digress. If you need things at an inexpensive price come check it out but know what the items you need are worth prior to arriving. This way you know you got a deal and avoided getting taken. Additionally, you'll know whether you need to shop at another store instead

Prices are too high. Especially for coffee cups. $4? I can get a new one for less. Other household…read moreitems were quite pricy as well. Salvation Army down the street offers better deals.

I love an antique mall with its endless booths of really cool stuff but this may be the best…read moreantique mall of all. The Wildwood Antique Mall of Lakeland is part of the Wildwood Antique Mall chain. Wildwood Antique Mall claims to be one of the largest antique dealers in Florida. It was started in 2011, when 77-year-old Manny Pesco took his last $4,000 from his former auction business that had closed because of the 2008 recession and invested the money into the first Wildwood Antique Mall that took its name from the intersection it is located on. Other locations opened in Eustis, Vero Beach, and Titusville opened in the intervening years and the investment turned out to be a good one since all of the locations do around 5 million dollars annually. What makes this antique mall different from the other stores in the chain is the abundance of merchandise available from the theme parks. I found booths for both Universal and Disney items. The fun starts when you walk in the door and there is a carriage from Disney's Port Orleans resort out front and you are greeted by a velociraptor straight out of Universal Studios just inside the door. Wildwood Antique Mall of Lakeland has all of the typical booths of antiques you would expect to find but my favorite booths were the ones filled with Disney and Universal Studios merchandise. Recycling the Magic had a Splash Mountain log flume car, Vault Collectibles sells Disney and Universal studios props, and Melly's Remarket sells Disney art. My favorite booth was the Jurassic World Tribute store in the back of mall with a ton of Universal Studio items. They had an extensive horror collection and many other one of a kind items. I especially loved all of the Haunted Mansion items I found throughout the mall. If you are a theme park fan like me this is a must stop if you are in Lakeland. Prices for the real collectibles were more than I could afford but I found a Haunted Mansion Loungefly for only $25. There is something for everyone. Allow a few hours for a visit because this antique mall feels never ending. I could have easily spent all day here.

This was a nice maintained store. They had a little bit of everything but I'd say 70% of it was…read moreDisney items. Really great things, not what I was looking for all in all. It was a nice shop.

I'm not sure what exactly to make of this thrift store. It's a strange mish-mash of things. The…read morebuilding appears to be in decent condition but the a/c wasn't working properly and the workers kept grumbling about it. Many, if not most of the items were extremely picked over and in poor condition and over-priced. Then, those exact same items were price-tagged in red and were only 50 cents that day. Was that deliberate to sell them or just a coincidence? Also, certain price tag colors had discounts but it depended upon the cashier to determine if they were going to honor that discount or not. They had appliances in bad shape; broken, rusty, and no price tags. On the other hand, many pieces of furniture on the floor appeared to be right out of a store and priced quite high ($150 for one end table) for a thrift shop. Are they new or used? Some were obviously used, others I just couldn't tell. The clothing section was very large and seemed quite poor. Although, a woman before me found a treasure trove of '80s suits someone donated in excellent shape and she bought them all. I'm not interested in them, but it did get me thinking that if one was hunting for things like that, then this place would be one to keep in mind. There was a media room (electronics?, not sure) and books in another area through a doorway, that I did not check out. Only the cashiers were masked. The workers stocking things were masked when we first arrived but soon took them off, and were grumbling about that as well. They seemed to grumble about a lot of things. The biggest problem with this thrift shop is that the loading of purchases and the unloading of donations happen in the same area: the front doors of the store. People show up in very large pick-up trucks with flat bed trailers and park in front of the store and literally block the doors and make the first row of parking spaces very difficult to pull in and out of. Will we come back here? Maybe. Might wait a few months and check this place out again.

Wonderful organization, one man's unwanted to helping the needy. I donate all my unwanted items to…read morethem

Very small, very specific finds -- not much else. Not a peaceful river, that's for sure, baha…read more I'm not entirely sure how to describe this thrift store other than very small and a bit unusual. There's a decent amount of clothing, but nothing that really caught my attention. Along the walls are various knickknacks and random small items -- the kind of things you might pick up for under a dollar. That said, the best part of the store (by far) was the card selection. They have boxes of individual greeting cards -- Christmas, birthday, and miscellaneous -- for about $0.25 each, all brand new and blank inside. Some were funny, some were really pretty, and for that price it's a total steal. I found a Christmas card for a quarter, and my friend found a small zipper pouch that was perfect for tossing into her backpack. If you're someone who loves cheap, random little finds like that, this might be worth a stop. They also had some kids' items, a few books, and I noticed a couple of nice plates, but overall the store felt pretty bare. Unfortunately, the service was a big downside. The man working there didn't greet us and seemed very eager to close -- repeatedly announcing how many minutes were left until closing. I understand wanting to wrap up the day, but it made the experience feel rushed and unwelcoming. There's also a strict $5 minimum for credit cards, so I had to go back to my car to dig up change just to buy a card. I get it from a business perspective, but the delivery could've been friendlier. Overall, it was a strange little thrift store and not one I'd go out of my way to revisit. I might stop back strictly for the cheap greeting cards, but not for the service or general shopping experience.

This is a lovely little thrift shop located in a tiny strip mall in South Lakeland. It's a charity…read moreshop benefiting the Peace River Center, and you will find some crafts like jewelry made by the patrons at the counter for sale. They have mainly clothes here, but there are other things here typically found at thrift shops like tchotchkes and dishes, etc. It is definitely worth coming here and looking to see what you can find. Their hours are extremely short, and not open on weekends, due to losing employees because of the pandemic.

I had been hearing about the place a lot and I had to be in Lakeland for a work event and knew I…read morehad to come check it out. I was pretty surprised by how big it was. There were so many different booths to look through. Some really unique stuff, kids toys, and lots of Disney stuff. The back theme park room was really cool. They had a bunch of stuff from past Halloween horror nights, parts to old rides, really cool signs, and more. How cool to be able to own something that was in universal? They are constantly getting more things so it'd be fun to check in every once in awhile.

This place is dangerous haha. There so much cool stuff here I definitely would like to go back with…read moresome more time and look over everything. We only had about an hour or so to look around and I could definitely see myself spending double that here. I loved visiting here and would definitely return but the bad part is most of the things I wanted were too fragile to fly with. If I was ever driving I'd stop and look at some things more but I had to stick to smaller stuff that I knew would survive the flight. I did take pictures of some things so I could try and find them online.

The shop has a lot of large pieces of furniture. There's not that much to look through. It did have…read moresome nice pieces of furniture priced a little high for my liking. A lot of the items in the back were very rustic but if you are someone who is handy when it comes to those things you may find some gems for you.

My fiancée and I found this beautiful mid century modern entertainment center. Oshay was so sweet…read more He offered to deliver it for us since we were close and let us borrow equipment to get it home. Great store and owners!