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Consignment, resale and thrift stores have more jeans that you can shake your...umm, leg... at!

How are you getting people in?

Some imagination-provoking ideas about getting people shopping in real stores instead of on the Internet in this New York Times article. (Not sure about the booty cam though.)

After all, if you Google “online consignment” just for the past year, you get 1.7 million hits.

Yes, 1.7 million.

Comment, below, about how YOU market the advantages of in-person resale shopping in your business.  Or how you will be, this fall selling season. Ideas for attracting consignors, suppliers, and donors as well as shoppers would be great, if you have something to share.

All commenters will be entered into a drawing

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Truthfully, I am flabbergasted.

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Consignment, resale, and thrift shops hurt themselves with this color-tag madness.Oh my. You know how I hate doing math when I shop.

But this message? Really takes the cake. Especially when the thermometer hits the triple digits.

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Just a jot: If you don’t check in at TGtbT.com often, you may have missed our latest article:

My Living Social Experience

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Fascinating business model, that even bricks-&-mortar stores can learn from. For example:

Site greys out until you cough up your personal info

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