Habitat for Humanity’s ReStores in Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce are closing this weekend, citing changing buying habits and a decline in donations as key factors. The ReStores, known for offering discounted furniture, housewares, home improvement items and a variety of other goods, are holding a clearance sale as they prepare to shut down. ReStore Director William McLaughlin often greets customers with a warm welcome and announced, “We got a 75% sale off today,” McLaughlin said. Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 NewsRegular customer and donor Duncan Shuts is going to miss visiting the ReStore. “I’m sad. This is a place I can drop off before I go for coffee,” Shuts said.CEO Bob Calhoun explained that the earnings from these operations have helped make 89 homes possible, but the ReStores were no longer generating the necessary funds to support their mission. “We have made the very difficult decision to our beloved ReStores, which have been a great asset to the community and for many years a great contributor to the work we do to create affordable homeownership opportunities and also to preserve affordable housing through our repair programs,” Calhoun said.HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: ‘They did a great job’: Local veteran in Boynton Beach praises Habitat for Humanity volunteersCalhoun cited several reasons for the closures, including changing buying habits, a decline in donations, and the impact of cellphones. “Was the cellphone that everybody carries in their pocket because now it’s so easy to just take that picture of what you’d like to give up and post it on a multitude of platforms and somebody comes, gives you a little money and hauls it away,” Calhoun said.He emphasized that ending the operations was a difficult decision. “Financially, they were no longer contributing to our core mission, in fact, and actually pulling some resources away from it,” Calhoun said.”The ReStores will officially close Saturday, Nov. 22.Stay up-to-date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. —

Habitat for Humanity’s ReStores in Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce are closing this weekend, citing changing buying habits and a decline in donations as key factors.

The ReStores, known for offering discounted furniture, housewares, home improvement items and a variety of other goods, are holding a clearance sale as they prepare to shut down.

ReStore Director William McLaughlin often greets customers with a warm welcome and announced, “We got a 75% sale off today,” McLaughlin said.

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Regular customer and donor Duncan Shuts is going to miss visiting the ReStore.

“I’m sad. This is a place I can drop off before I go for coffee,” Shuts said.

CEO Bob Calhoun explained that the earnings from these operations have helped make 89 homes possible, but the ReStores were no longer generating the necessary funds to support their mission.

“We have made the very difficult decision to our beloved ReStores, which have been a great asset to the community and for many years a great contributor to the work we do to create affordable homeownership opportunities and also to preserve affordable housing through our repair programs,” Calhoun said.

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Calhoun cited several reasons for the closures, including changing buying habits, a decline in donations, and the impact of cellphones.

“Was the cellphone that everybody carries in their pocket because now it’s so easy to just take that picture of what you’d like to give up and post it on a multitude of platforms and somebody comes, gives you a little money and hauls it away,” Calhoun said.

He emphasized that ending the operations was a difficult decision.

“Financially, they were no longer contributing to our core mission, in fact, and actually pulling some resources away from it,” Calhoun said.”

The ReStores will officially close Saturday, Nov. 22.

Stay up-to-date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25