Six point two million pounds. That is the total weight of items donated to the Goodwill Industries at its collection station in Lake Oswego, and it was the top figure in North America for 2008. "There is no other site like it in the world," said Dale Emanuel, media relations manager ...

If you don't already know, Sunshine Liquidators on SE 52nd, near Woodstock is closing. 

From The Bee:
"Sunshine Liquidators" to be displaced in Woodstock. "THE BEE has received the following statement from Goodwill Industries, which bought the building occupied by the popular "Sunshine Liquidators": "The Portland Planning Commission has approved the use of 6125 S.E. 52nd Avenue, the current site of Sunshine Liquidators, for a future Goodwill retail store. However, Goodwill Industries is not able to provide any further information until the vacancy of Sunshine Liquidators has been completed, which is expected on March 30, 2008." No comment has been received from the business that Goodwill is apparently displacing."

I was there yesterday and while there was some weird stuff with very old expiration dates...there was actually some decent stuff. I bought a few things...

They have tons of one-off and odd food. But also a bunch of office supplies/pens/paper goods =good for teachers?= And household goods.

When I was there, everything was 40% off.  The official closing day is March 22.

Cheers!

Juan Aldama is a U.S. citizen from Mexico, with an Oregon driver's license and a job as a supervisor at Goodwill Industries to prove it. Yet, on his days off, Aldama joins the 50 to 100 men who stand the corner of Southeast Sixth Avenue and Ankeny Street each morning waiting for day labor ...

Juan Aldama is a U.S. citizen from Mexico, with an Oregon driver's license and a job as a supervisor at Goodwill Industries to prove it. Yet, on his days off, Aldama joins the 50 to 100 men who stand the corner of Southeast Sixth Avenue and Ankeny Street each morning waiting for day labor ...