New Woodbridge Goodwill Store Now Open

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The brand-new Goodwill store in Woodbridge just opened Monday, April 8.

The store is located at 455 Green Street in Iselin, in the Woodbridge Crossing shopping center. Store hours are 10 a.m - 6 p.m., Monday-Sunday.

The store is also a donation center, so residents can drop off their gently used and unwanted clothing, shoes, jackets and home goods, to be re-sold at other Goodwills.

Goodwill is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Goodwill says it specifically uses revenue from its stores to hire local residents with disabilities, and homeless U.S. military veterans. Goodwill specifically tries to hire employees who live in the towns where their stores are located. Goodwill also tries to hire people diagnosed with mental illness.

"The mission of Goodwill is to empower individuals with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work," said the company.

Goodwill is currently in the midst of a major expansion in the New York City metro area: The new Woodbridge store is their 10th in Northern New Jersey. New Goodwill stores just opened in Ledgewood, NJ, in Hillsborough, NJ, in Manhattan and Merrick on Long Island.

Goodwill re-purposes second-hand clothing and home goods. At a time when "fast fashions" and cheap textiles are clogging landfills, Goodwill says it is keeping the equivalent to 83 Statues of Liberty out of landfills.