The East Brainerd store is “home” to our e-business operations which means that customers can pick up items they win on shopgoodwill/chattanooga auctions.
The East Brainerd store is “home” to our e-business operations which means that customers can pick up items they win on shopgoodwill/chattanooga auctions without having to pay shipping and handling. This is one of our newer stores. It opened in April 2013. As a former Food Lion grocery store, the location has plenty of parking and lots of floor space. There is a donation center adjacent to the store, and the store has a “Community Room” that is available for use – free of charge – for community events.
Chattanooga Goodwill is preparing to reopen one of their top selling locations after it was destroyed by a tornado last year. Channel 3's Caroline Corrigan shows us how the store will feature changes to improve job security in the community. For people in the East Brainerd community, signs of the deadly Easter Sunday tornado are still present. Gina Weldon, president and CEO of Chattanooga Goodwill Industries says the EF-3 tornado destroyed their top selling store w A major loss for the community, but Weldon says they took it as an opportunity to rebrand. We just tried to make the best of the situation and turn it into a positive and really be intentional about how we could come back and build back even stronger and impact more lives in the community. It will open with a new model of first of its kind job connection center right next door. Our donation express next to it has been emphasized so you donate, you shop and then somet So we'really about workforce development. Eventually she says t And it's just to meet people where they are and find out what those barriers are that prevent them from finding employment or from accessing skills and training so that they can get a job or receive skills and training to get a better paid job. W In Chattanooga, Caroline Corrigan, Channel 3, Eyewitness News.