Thrift stores in Memphis

If you like the hunt, Memphis, Tennessee is worth a wander: 14 second-hand and charity shops are mapped here. 10 of them are charity shops and 4 are independent second-hand stores, so Memphis gives you both flavours of thrifting in one trip.

This guide covers every thrift store we could verify in and around Memphis (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include BAM Thrift Store and Goodwill, plus Goodwill — each with its own personality, which is half the fun. If a shop's missing from Memphis's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Memphis thrift lineup

14 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about thrifting in Memphis

1 of the 14 shops list their opening hours, which is unusually helpful for Memphis — thrift stores are notorious for surprise closures. Still, call ahead if you're making a special trip to Memphis; volunteer-run shops sometimes close early on quiet days.

3 shops have websites listed, worth a look before you go — some post new arrivals or sale days online.

The Memphis thrift circuit

The efficient Memphis thrifting route strings these together: BAM Thrift Store, Goodwill, Goodwill on 3109 Poplar Avenue, Bibles For China Thrift Center on 6184 Macon Road, Hope Missions, Park Avenue Value Store, Goodwill, and Goodwill on 6518 Quince Road — 14 shops, one logical loop, no backtracking. 6 more are listed below.

Thrifting tips for Memphis

A few things worth knowing before you work through Memphis's thrift stores:

• Donate while you're there at BAM Thrift Store. Bring a bag of your own cast-offs. It keeps the cycle going and the volunteers remember friendly faces.
• Ask when new stock hits the floor at Goodwill. Shops restock on rhythms — truck days, volunteer shifts. One question at the counter tells you when to come back.
• Learn the colour-tag system. Many charity shops tag items with coloured stickers and discount one colour each week. Ask at the till; it's rarely advertised.
• Try everything on. Sizing across decades is chaos. The fitting room — or a brave moment by the mirror — saves you from the almost-right jacket.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Memphis — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to for a thrifting run. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new shop in Memphis can take a while to appear. The 14 above are only as current as the community map. A shop that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

Prices at Memphis's thrift stores are set by each shop and change constantly, so we don't list them. As a rough rule, charity shops are the cheapest, independents sit in the middle, and anything labelled vintage costs more everywhere — Memphis included.