While most resale and consignment an
d thrift shops have been seeing more shoppers and more gross sales* what with the recent economic woes, there are some belly-aching. They complain that their shoppers have stopped shopping, that their clientele is losing their jobs right and left, that “no one is buying.”
Well, that might be 100% true.
Their current, historic, customer could well be hurting, and the lack of sales from this segment of the community could be drastic. But what of those 90% of shoppers in every community who have never, or seldom, shopped resale?
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th everything higher, from I’m proud of how far I’ve come to I have the absolute best resale shop. (Note to all: I passed my shop on to another over 12 years ago, when I started doing this full-time. Well, actually, I was supposed to be retiring young, but this business gets in your blood and
Remember high school (shudder!), when whether or not you were popular was the absolute only thing that mattered?
