Then shop 'til you drop at Hohenwald's junk stores. Famous throughout the mid-south, the Hohenwald junk stores specialize in used clothing that is purchased in northern and midwestern cities and then brought south in large bales. Clothing and other assorted merchandise have made Hohenwald's stores a mecca for people from near and far who are looking for bargains.
People go from one store to the other and they often end up spending the whole day shopping.
In the front part of these stores there are used and new clothing for every member of the family, and they are arranged on racks and tables. There are shoes, socks, sweaters, coats, jackets, blouses, suits, dresses, slacks, kids clothes, jeans, accessories, linens, and related items. In the back of these stores, however, are the bale rooms. Every Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons, huge 1000 pound bales of used clothes are cut open, thrown on a large floor area, and sifted through by shoppers, hoping to find big bargains. The best way to look through the bales is to get a laundry basket, sit down in the middle of the piles of clothes, and start picking and digging through everything.