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How can For-Profit Consignment Shops Support Not-for-Profit Thrifts?

October 16, 2010 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

For-Profit Consignment Shops can Support Not-for-Profit Thrift Shops…even if they don’t want donations.

NFPs don't want our NTYs or our ODsWe discussed how NFP stores can expand their presence in the resale industry recently, because NFPs were saying they didn’t get enough charity-specific attention from NARTS as paid members, nor free information from my TGtbT Family of Sites for Resale Professionals. So I produced, as my donation to charities of all sorts, a free article Continue Reading »

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Hand me the popcorn…Show me the clothes.

October 15, 2010 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

I love old movies. I don’t care if the plots are predicable or the film grainy.Ah, the bias cut, the silks and rayons, the glamor!

I watch old movies for the clothes. Consider it research for your consignment or resale shop. (Maybe you can expense the cable bill?)

Doing fashion research for your consignment shop? You'll need fuel.If you, like me, cannot get enough of Hollywood’s (past) glamor, here’s a blog you’ll adore…much less caloric than that butter-drenched popcorn.

 

See retroplanet.com for all sorts of wonderful goodies. That’s where Mr. Popcorn came from.

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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without: The resale shopkeeper’s guide

October 14, 2010 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Good advice for us all...and especially for resale and consignment shopkeepersUse it up:

All those peskyteacups that Aunt Maude left you in her will?  Use them up.

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Wear it out:

See what’s in your attic, basement or garage…and wear it out in its new life in your resale, thrift, or consignment shop.

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Make it do:

Before you send it home as a NTY… or throw it in the dumpster…could you make it do?

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Do without:

(This might make a great Halloween costume for an avid recycler, too.)

No need to buy those commercial plastic jewelry cards. Just say no and make your own store-branded cards. Adhesive backs to turn cards into hanging cards.

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Plastic bag dress photo from Treehugger.com (directions there too if you want to make one for a costume…or a recycling display.)
 

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4 ways to have happy customers

October 13, 2010 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Here’s just one tip from 101 Daily Tips for a Better Resale Shop, a  mini-Product for the Professional Resaler at our “Have Lunch with Kate” Luncheonette. These are especially potent because so few retailers of any sort observe them.

1- Learn and USE your customer’s name.

2- Keep a file of customer purchases. A quick glance means you can suggest something.

3- Maintain a new arrivals area for constant shoppers. They’ll love to see what just came in.

4- Realize that sometimes exceptions to the rules have to be made.

The fact that these 4 ways to have happy customers costs your shop nothing money-wise…well, that’s just a bonus, isn’t it? See all the resale-specific mini-Products available to consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers.

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Deja Vuesday: Consignment & resale…even thrift…stores could attract more teen buyers

October 12, 2010 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Getting the high school and college market can be done!

Now that most college and university towns are full up again with students…

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…and high-school students have sorted out what they want to wear this semester…

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is it time you Continue Reading »

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