Inside Nice Find: The Bin Store Where Everything Started at $7

Damian Polak on the radio explaining Nice Find, his first bin store, where nothing cost more than $7 and prices dropped every day until “dollar Wednesday.”

Years before Archer Logistix, Damian Polak was sitting in a radio studio explaining why people were lining up outside a store in Aurora, Illinois before it even opened. The store was Nice Find, the concept was simple, and the prices sounded almost fake. Nothing in the building cost more than seven dollars. Watch the full interview →

THE MODEL
Seven Dollars, No Exceptions

Nice Find opened on Farnsworth Avenue in Aurora on November 14, 2020, and the pitch was straightforward. Shelf pulls, overstock, and returns sourced by the truckload from major retailers, sorted into bins, and sold at a price nobody could talk themselves out of. A big screen TV for seven dollars. A George Foreman grill for seven dollars. Robotic vacuums that normally ran into the hundreds, seven dollars. Damian's explanation for how the math worked was blunt: cut out the middleman, buy in huge volume, and pass the savings straight through instead of marking things up.

THE WEEK
Closed Thursdays, Sold Out by Wednesday

The pricing wasn't static, and that was the point. Every restock followed the same weekly rhythm. Thursdays the store closed entirely so staff could reload 20,000 to 25,000 pieces into the bins. Friday and Saturday, everything sold for seven dollars. Sunday dropped to five. Monday to three, with a 20 percent discount on top for seniors and veterans. Tuesday sat at two dollars. By Wednesday, whatever hadn't sold yet went for a flat dollar, a day regulars called "dollar Wednesday," where the whole store cleared out before the next semis arrived.

That built two things at once: urgency, since waiting a few days meant the best items were already gone, and loyalty, since regulars learned exactly which day matched their budget and showed up like clockwork.

THE SOURCING
Semi Trucks From Best Buy, Target, Amazon, and More

What showed up each week wasn't predictable, and Damian was upfront that even he didn't fully know what was on a truck until it arrived. Nice Find sourced from big box retailers running liquidation programs, Best Buy, Target, Amazon, Home Depot, Lowe's, and at times higher end brands like Pottery Barn, whose returned pillows and fabrics became a genuine crowd favorite the week they showed up. Small appliances, electronics, toys, bedding, and general merchandise rotated constantly, which meant no two weeks at Nice Find looked the same. The store leaned on Facebook to post photos of what was coming before the doors even opened, so regulars could decide in advance whether it was a "Home Depot week" or a "Target week" worth planning around.

THE COMMUNITY
Long Lines, Loyal Regulars, and a $1,200 Find

The stories from Nice Find's early days say as much about the model as the pricing does. One caller into the same radio segment described getting a TV for seven dollars despite arriving well back in a line that wrapped around the building, proof that showing up late didn't necessarily mean missing out. Another customer walked out with a Pottery Barn comforter valued at $279 for a fraction of that. And in one of the more memorable finds, a longtime collector pulled three ounces of real silver coins out of a dollar bin, worth roughly $1,200, apparently misplaced somewhere along a return chain before landing at Nice Find.

Beyond the deals, Nice Find had become a routine for entire families, with regulars describing Friday mornings as a standing family event. That kind of repeat, ritualized shopping behavior is exactly what a volume-driven, fast-turnover model depends on.

THE TAKEAWAY
The Blueprint Behind What Came Next

Nice Find was Damian's first real education in liquidation, years before Archer Logistix existed. The core lesson, that volume only works if there's a fast, structured way to move it, shows up again and again in how he talks about liquidation today. The details have changed since 2020, but the instinct to build a system where nothing sits still hasn't.