Westside Return-It Centre

Great place, surprisingly friendly employees, especially for the kind of work they are doing. A little extra change and a smile go a long way for me.

If your collection of bottle returns is gathering fruit flies, it’s time to pay a friendly visit to the Return-​It Centre.
With my local grocery and liquor store refusing returns because of construction, I Iugged three dozen beer bottles and some miscellaneous beverage containers to this location in order to scrounge some coffee change. I took the bottles to the counter and confessed to the guy in sweet ear muffs that it was my first time, asking how best to sort the bottles. (Hey, I’m a follow-​the-​rules type of gal.)
To make a sweeping generalization, I was expecting a grumpy-​middle-​age-​man reply, but instead got a friendly direction to separate out the types of containers into the red trays and leave the beer bottles in their cases. As requested, I cordoned off the containers and redeemed them for the value of a coffee and muffin.
True, the floor was sticky, the air stinky, and I tried desperately not to touch anything, but at least the service was friendly. Let’s focus on the positive ;)