Goodwill Industries

As far as Goodwills go, this location compared to others that I’ve been to is excellent! Clean, spacious, well organized & reasonably priced — I will definitely come back here.

I go to thrift stores to book hunt. The books were sorted by topic, which is nice. The selection was ok, not great.

As my other Goodwill reviews note, I frequent these stores for the books. In this regard, I am hard pressed to give a poor review to any store. Goodwills generally offer a pretty nice selection of cheap books at all of their store’s.
Their store on Pioneer Parkway in Peoria is no exception. They have a large, well-​sorted (though not well situated) selection of cheap used books. For this, I can go no lower than 3 stars.
However, there are a few cons:
1) The lighting is very bright and harsh. I actually found myself squinting a few times as the light bounced off the white page of the book I was flipping through.
2) The radio blares, loudly. Yesterday, I actually jumped a little when the station switched songs rapidly and Richie Valens started bellowing, «La Bamba.» This was further exacerbated when the chipper lady stacking Billy Graham books into her cart squealed loudly and started singing along.
3) (Reference picture I uploaded of the store’s book section). Like most of the other stores in the area, the book section is placed right in the middle of a highly trafficked area. The carts stream up the main aisle to the popular knickknack section. Some of these carts move back to the main aisle when they are done. However, most make a big loop, which takes them through the book section. The aisles in the book section are just wide enough for a cart. If you are browsing the books and a cart comes (and they do frequently) you will have to move. Also, for whatever reason, many of the carts that supplant you, often stop and begin browsing the exact section you had to move from. It can become grating.
When shopping at this Goodwill, bring earplugs and a couple of extra doses of patience, you will need them.