Shop Updates

Updated Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Updated Thursday, January 7, 2021

Updated Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Updated Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Updated Thursday, August 20, 2020

Updated Saturday, August 15, 2020

Updated Thursday, July 16, 2020

Updated Saturday, July 11, 2020

• Staff members are temperature and health checked at the beginning of each shift
• Staff are wearing masks and frequently washing or sanitizing their hands
• Our shopping baskets and carts are sanitized after each use
• Sanitizing stations have been placed throughout the store for customer use
• Sneeze guards and partitioning have been installed at our Checkout Areas and Customer Service/Jewelry counter
• Frequent disinfecting of counters and door handles with sanitizing solutions or with UV lights.
• One-way aisles – arrows on floor and above where possible
• Waste containers are available inside and outside the shop & Showcase.  Please don’t litter in our parking lot!
• Contactless Cash & Credit payment

Updated Saturday, June 20, 2020

Updated Monday, May 25, 2020

 As Governor Whitmer begins to allow businesses to open with new safety guidelines, your Ann Arbor PTO Thrift Shop is preparing for when it’s our turn! However, when that will be is still unknown. While planning for our safely reopening has been ongoing, it’s now time to begin putting our plan into action. We will be following all State mandated orders and requirements to keep our staff, customers and donors safe.

We have some exciting news! Our landlord has installed iWave-C Air Purifiers on our HVAC systems. Although the COVID-19 virus has not been made available for testing with our new purifier, the iWave family of products have been proven through independent lab testing to significantly reduce a wide variety of pathogens and viruses similar to coronavirus in the breathing zone and on hard non-porous surfaces. We are reengineering our traffic patterns – entry, exit, shopping areas, and checkout area. We are making signs and posting where needed to help direct you in staying safe. All staff and customers will be required to wear masks in the store, and adhere to 6-foot social distancing. We are redoing how we accept donations and will have a new holding area. All incoming donations will stay in our holding area for a 3-day minimum period before being processed for sale.

There’s much to do and as new requirements for opening occur, we are adapting. Our staff will be coming back to work and prepping the store for a minimum of a week before we will welcome back our shoppers. We will keep you posted and will share our reopening date with you as soon as it is set.

Updated Thursday, March 26, 2020

We, like so many local businesses and nonprofits, are closed for safety and to Slow the Spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. We are missing our staff, our customers, our donors and our income. We’ve many worries like everyone experiencing this challenging period of time, from both a business perspective and for each, from a personal one.

We closed to shoppers and donors on March 15th and furloughed our staff on March 22nd. During that week, we busied ourselves with inventory processing, deep cleaning, reorganization, and painting for a fresh new “reopening look!” Before the last of us left the building on the last day, we dust covered nearly everything in the shop. Stocked shelving and clothing racks appear ghostly, forlorn, and lonely throughout the store, waiting for the “Open sign” to be lit, the parking lot to be full, and the store busy with thrifty shoppers doing their thing!