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To Speed Expansion, Resale Marketplace GoodwillFinds adds Walmart, Office Depot Execs to C-Suite

Retail TouchPoints

GoodwillFinds — the new resale marketplace from nonprofit thrift store chain Goodwill — has added two retail veterans to its C-suite and onboarded three new Goodwill member organizations (representing more than 50 retail stores) to the platform.

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The rise and rise of the thrift retail store

I Vend

Walk down any high street and you’ll see evidence of one of the growing trends in retail – the rise of the thrift store. Read about how a leading US thrift store is embracing its growing popularity. All of which means that the thrift store has well and truly come into the retail mainstream.

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Gen Z, in Their Own Words: What They Really Want from Brands and Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

Authenticity has become a marketing buzzword in its own right, but members of the Z Suite agreed that they want to feel emotionally connected to brands they buy from. They also want to feel represented in marketing materials and even in product design. With Allie, it was a no brainer.” With Allie, it was a no brainer.”

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21 Rural Business Ideas

Small Biz Trends

This gives you a unique opportunity to build a loyal customer base. You can tap into an untapped market. By starting a business in a small town, you can serve a customer base that has previously been underserved. This could lead to high profits and strong word-of-mouth marketing. Thrift Store Owner.

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6 POS Software Performance Metric Thrift Stores Must Track

I Vend

Thrift shopping continues to grow in popularity, particularly with millennial and Gen Z shoppers. For retailers, thrift stores have become part of the ‘mainstream’, managed with many of the key disciplines of ‘regular’ retail. But thrift retail also has its own unique characteristics and store performance indicators.

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Category Insights Report: Dollar Stores Redefine Themselves with Enhanced Merchandising and Mobile Apps

Retail TouchPoints

Once largely associated with lower-income households, dollar stores are now becoming retail staples even for more affluent households, inspiring retailers in these categories to invest more heavily in marketing, merchandising and technology innovation that will help them differentiate.

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Gen Z: Merchants of cool or brand killers?

Inside Retail

Where I once hid my habit for thrift store shopping and slinked into charity stores incognito and inconspicuously along the walls, I now proudly thrift every second weekend with my Gen Z kid and tweet about it afterwards. They’re set to account for 40 per cent of the global luxury fashion market alone by 2025.