Every purchase at the Mustard Seed Thrift Store carries a second transaction alongside the first: proceeds from the shop’s second-hand clothing, shoes, housewares, dishes, home decor, and hygiene products go toward funding employment resources through The Mustard Seed, the Edmonton nonprofit that operates the store as part of its broader work supporting people facing poverty and homelessness. The retail location sits at 6527 118 Avenue in Edmonton, with parking available behind the building, and is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Sundays and statutory holidays.
Unlike many thrift stores, this location does not double as a donation drop-off point. Anyone looking to donate clothing or household goods is directed instead to The Mustard Seed’s separate warehouse at 10568 114 Street, open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., which keeps the retail floor focused purely on shopping rather than sorting incoming donations in the same space customers are browsing. That split between donation processing and retail sales lets the storefront run more like a conventional secondhand shop, with merchandise already sorted and priced by the time it reaches the sales floor.
The categories on offer span the everyday essentials a household actually needs: men’s and women’s clothing, children’s clothing and toys, shoes, dishes and housewares, home decor, and hygiene products, all priced well below retail. For budget-conscious shoppers in the neighborhood, that mix covers most of what a typical thrift trip is looking for in one stop, while for the organization itself, each sale supports its stated mission of turning donated goods into funding for job training and employment support rather than letting usable items go to waste.
Beyond the physical storefront, the store also runs an online shop through Shopify, giving shoppers outside easy driving distance of 118 Avenue a way to browse and purchase without visiting in person. That online option, paired with an active Instagram presence under the handle tmsthriftstoreyeg, extends the shop’s reach past its immediate northeast Edmonton neighborhood and lets past customers keep tabs on new arrivals between visits.
The Mustard Seed itself is a long-running Edmonton-based charitable organization focused on addressing poverty and homelessness in the city, and the thrift store functions as one visible, everyday touchpoint between that mission and the wider public: a place where a five-dollar shirt or a secondhand lamp becomes part of funding for someone else’s path back into employment. For anyone in Edmonton looking to shop secondhand with a clear sense of where the money goes, or looking to donate rather than shop, the two-location model, retail on 118 Avenue and donations on 114 Street, keeps both goals running smoothly side by side. The Mustard Seed Thrift Store in Edmonton is a nonprofit secondhand shop where clothing, housewares, and home goods sales directly fund employment support services for people facing poverty and homelessness.
