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Memphis Goodwill Industries will open its second location in Hernando Thursday in the former Goody's Family Clothing location, 2670 McIngvale Road.
Keith Chapman, director of operations for Memphis Goodwill Industries in Mississippi, said the new store will be completely different from the Goodwill Bargain Barn on Commerce Drive in Hernando.
"The new store will be a retail location like our store in Horn Lake or our State Line Road location in Southaven," Chapman said. "The Bargain Barn is where items go if they didn't sell at our retail locations. Prices at the Bargain Barn are drastically reduced and the clothes are placed in bins and sold by the pound."
The Hernando retail store will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Saturday and from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday. It will also have a drive-through donation site on the side of the building.
A ribbon-cutting for the store is planned for 5 p.m. today.
Chapman said the store brings 18 new jobs to Hernando and included hiring the manager and assistant manger from the Goody's store to serve in the same capacity for Goodwill.
"With these jobs, Goodwill will have added 64 jobs to DeSoto County since July of last year," Chapman said. "We are also close to signing leases for retail stores in Oxford, Corinth and Tupelo. So we'll probably be creating close to another 100 jobs in Northwest Mississippi in the foreseeable future."
Chapman said plans are also in the works for a retail store in Olive Branch and donation sites in Batesville and Senatobia.
The Olive Branch retail store would be in addition to a drop-off center currently being sought there. Goodwill officials are scheduled to ask the city's Board of Adjustment to review the request at its 6 p.m. Thursday meeting at the Municipal Court Building.
The drop-off center, at 7058 Hacks Cross, would be in the site of a former Starbucks Coffee.
Chapman said the drop-off center, the second in Olive Branch, will be attended 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays.
Attendants help keep donations from collecting outdoors, and a night crew goes by centers to collect items people may have dropped off after hours, Chapman said.
Goodwill Industries operates more than 2,000 retail stores throughout the U.S. and Canada and uses proceeds from its stores to fund career-services training and placement programs for people with disabilities and other disadvantages.
-- Mark Crum: (662) 996-1421
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