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    Has anyone else found interesting stuff at store closings or liquidation auctions ?

    I've found a lot of cheap store fixtures a the local Sears that is closing ( racks, shelving, display cases ). Last year there was a liquidation auction for a craft shop - spent $26 on box lots ( filled my car ), sold the stuff on Ebay for quite a lot.
    One of my best scrap finds was years ago when the Wal-Mart moved - ended up with a pallet of old style CCTV cameras for $1.


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    I use to work for a rather large supermarket chain, I was the night mgr. and would get all the shelfs, racks, baskets, tables, pegs, file cabinets, broken flat carts, shopping carts, pallet jacks, ect that the boss and or district manager wanted gone. Didnt need to call anyone, they would say take it when you get off work. Some times multi truck loads at a time, would have to come back and have the over night guy help load it up.

    As the store mgr's would get transferred to another store, they would call me to get there scrap. I became the south C district scrapper.

    Best scores from the stores were a conveyor belt ( me and the guy from the frozen dept took it down one night, scary job there. )

    a stainless meat/bone saw from meat market

    2 6ft x 2.5ft stainless rolling fridge coolers with work tops

    300 lb garbage disposal from farmstand dept

    3 tier pallet storage bays with over 400 lbs of Alum farmstand shelfs

    The old p/a system control box.

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    A few months back I came across a whole 40 yard roll off dumpster filled with Gondola shelving next to a business that was closed down. Apparently the new tenants offered the property owner more in rent and the owner found a BS reason to evict them. The new tenants wanted to pay them for the shelving but they threw it away out of spite! That was an all day mega score for me. Something like 6 trips to the scrap yard that day.

    Besides that score I always stop and check for roll off dumpsters behind stores that have recently closed or any time I see a new business coming in.

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