Unclaimed Baggage

We stopped overnight at the Walmart in Scottsboro, AL. We wanted to shop the goods at the Unclaimed Baggage Store there, to see if anything caught our eye. We had stopped there in the 1990's right after they had received television coverage on CNN, and we found things kind of sparse. We thought another visit would be worthwhile, and it was.

We don't know if all the goods in the store actually are from people's missing luggage. I'm suspicious, as some things looked like they were damaged in transit, and perhaps insurance paid for replacements. If so, they're not really unclaimed, just unwanted. Most everything is used, like shopping Goodwill, but generally the quality is good or better. Some items still have store tags on them, probably never worn.

Prices are fairly good, though they clearly do enough research to eliminate unusually good deals. Golf shirts, for example, typically sell there from $10 to $15. But name brands will go for more, sometimes much more. I did see a Tiger Woods One shirt on the rack for $130. Not my size, fortunately.

So I got some golf shirts, a belt and shorts, needed now that I'm down a size from last year. I found a trucker's atlas, handy to identify routes with low clearances in our taller motorhome. A diabetes cookbook. A 1 GB mp3 player for $12. All that for under $60. Consuelo found some fabric, in the form of sari's. Really beautiful stuff.

I looked at cameras, not that I don't have enough, but I'm still wanting to have a point-and-shoot I can hang on my belt to have available for those shots I now miss.

All in all, it was a good way to kill a morning and satisfying the shopping itch.