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While most resale and consignment an2009feb26outofbusinessd 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?

The key to whether a resaler is doing well or not (more…)

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trunkfeb22-2009A mention on Sharing about an offer of not-quite-what-I-carry merchandise led to a discussion about how to merchandise such a find. Seems a shame, we all agree, to pass up something that could be verr-rr-y interesting, shopping- and selling-wise.

My first thought was of having a trunk show.

A trunk show is a (more…)

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I’d rank my consignment shop as a 6 at the most. (Here’s the choices.) Choosing a 6 means I agree with this statement:

There’s still plenty I mean to do, but my shop’s okay.

It also means I disagree wikeyboardtg-cropth 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 (more…)

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On a scale of 1 to 10, where would you place your consignment or buy-outright shop, and why?

  1. I could care less about my business, and it shows
  2. Gimme a break, I’m operating with drastic limitations
  3. Considering my area, the shop’s not bad (more…)

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happytrioRemember high school (shudder!), when whether or not you were popular was the absolute only thing that mattered?

Three sociologists at Columbia University, Duncan Watts, Matthew Salganil, and Peter Dodds, conducted the following experiment . . .

* They recruited 14,000 people to register at a website
* This website allowed people to listen to, download, and rate songs by unknown bands
* One group was given only (more…)

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