On the northwest side of Tucson, along West Orange Grove Road not far from the Tucson Mall corridor, Deseret Industries operates a thrift store that functions as much as a job training center as a retail outlet. The Tucson location sits at 3850 West Orange Grove Road, Tucson, Arizona 85741, and can be reached at 520-903-1036 for donation questions or general inquiries.
Deseret Industries is a program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and its retail stores are only one visible piece of a larger humanitarian and workforce development effort. Alongside secondhand merchandise on the sales floor, the Tucson store offers employment opportunities and development counseling to people looking to build job skills, whether through sorting and pricing donated goods, working the register, or handling customer service on the floor. That structure means every donation dropped off at the Orange Grove Road location does double duty, first as inventory for affordable shopping and second as a training resource for someone rebuilding a resume or reentering the workforce.
The Tucson store keeps a steady weekly schedule that shoppers and donors alike can plan around: doors open at 9 a.m. every day the store operates, with Monday closing earlier at 6 p.m. and Tuesday through Saturday running the longer 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. window. The store is closed on Sundays. Donation hours mirror retail hours exactly, so anyone dropping off bags of clothing, furniture, or household goods can do so any time the sales floor is open, without needing a separate appointment or drop-off window. Around major holidays the store shifts to a shortened schedule, with reduced hours on days like Christmas Eve and New Years Eve and full closures on holidays such as Thanksgiving and Independence Day, a pattern common to donation-based nonprofit retailers that also give staff time off around the calendars biggest holidays.
Because inventory arrives entirely through community donations, the mix of merchandise on the Orange Grove Road sales floor changes constantly, and shoppers who visit regularly tend to find the most value, catching furniture, clothing, and household goods before they move off the floor. For Tucson residents on the citys north and northwest side, the location offers a nearby alternative to driving into the more congested central corridors for secondhand shopping, while still supporting the churchs broader welfare and self-reliance mission through every purchase and every donation.
Deseret Industries stores across the country share this same dual identity as thrift retailer and job training site, and the Tucson location on Orange Grove Road carries that model forward for its own surrounding neighborhoods, giving both career-seekers and bargain shoppers a reason to walk through its doors. Whether someone comes in looking for an affordable dresser, a work uniform, or a fresh start through the stores training and counseling programs, the Orange Grove Road store is built to serve both needs under one roof.
Deseret Industries in Tucson, Arizona, located at 3850 West Orange Grove Road, is a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thrift store and job training center open Monday through Saturday that pairs affordable secondhand shopping with employment counseling for the surrounding community.
