WIN Resale Shop WestShore is the Colwood storefront of Women In Need Community Cooperative, the Victoria-area nonprofit better known simply as WIN, tucked into a busy retail plaza at unit 2, 310 Goldstream Avenue, sharing the block with the Colwood Thrifty Foods and sitting just behind the neighbourhood Rexall Pharmacy. That positioning puts the shop directly in the path of everyday grocery and pharmacy trips across Colwood and the broader WestShore, the fast-growing collection of communities, including Langford, View Royal, and Metchosin, that sit west of Victoria’s downtown core along the Trans-Canada Highway corridor. The store keeps extended hours to match that high-traffic location, opening Monday through Saturday from 10 in the morning to 5:30 in the evening and Sunday from 11 until 4, with the shop reachable directly at 778-433-2221 for questions on stock or donation drop-offs.
The WestShore location carries a resale mix built around everyday household turnover: clothing for all ages and genders, shoes and other fashion accessories, books, linens, and a wide range of housewares, the kind of practical, frequently needed categories that suit a shop positioned beside a grocery store rather than in a destination shopping district. That framing matters because it shapes who walks in: shoppers already running weekly errands at the plaza rather than people making a special cross-town trip specifically for vintage finds, giving the WestShore store a steadier, more routine customer base than a standalone boutique might see.
As with WIN’s other resale locations, proceeds from the WestShore store support the cooperative’s broader mission across Greater Victoria: helping women, trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people move through what the organization describes as the journey between crisis, self sufficiency, and wellness. WIN reports supporting more than 2,869 individuals in the past year through a combined model of resale revenue, donated goods, and direct services, including new start packages for people leaving crisis situations and ongoing self-sufficiency and crisis referral support coordinated through the cooperative’s Pandora Avenue office and Ardersier Road donation centre. A shopper picking up a set of linens or a child’s jacket at the WestShore till is, in effect, helping fund that same regionwide network of support services rather than lining the pockets of a private resale operator.
For WestShore residents, the Goldstream Avenue location offers a genuinely convenient, grocery-run-adjacent alternative to driving into downtown Victoria for secondhand shopping, while still connecting shoppers to the same mission-driven cooperative behind WIN’s other Greater Victoria stores. Given the plaza setting beside a full grocery store, stock tends to reflect a steady stream of household donations from a growing suburban population rather than a niche or curated collection, making it a dependable stop for practical, everyday secondhand needs. In short, WIN Resale Shop WestShore is a Colwood plaza fixture offering affordable clothing, linens, and housewares for the WestShore community, with every purchase supporting Women In Need Community Cooperative’s crisis and wellness programs across Greater Victoria.
