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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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36 Shop Business Ideas

Small Biz Trends

A sign shop sells custom signage, promotional goods, and advertising materials for businesses in the local community. Hardware Store. Auto parts stores can offer tires, tools, and accessories for drivers. Thrift Shop. Thrift stores provide secondhand items at discounted prices. Kids’ Store.

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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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Inflation’s Impact on Back-to-School Shopping

Independent Retailer

As consumers gear up for back-to-school, their biggest concern is the affordability of school supplies given the surge in inflation,” Brittany Billings, EVP of marketing and strategic markets at Shopkick, said. “To

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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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Don’t Shop Around on Sustainability: Carbon Labels Deliver the Goods

Retail TouchPoints

ThredUP, an online consignment and thrift store that sells secondhand clothes, makes sustainability a part of its brand values. It’s our responsibility as brands, retailers and marketers to ensure we meet those expectations, or risk getting left in the shadows of companies that are.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 300 – Goodwill Finds CEO Matt Kaness

Retail Geek

Over a billion in gmv which is to say the direct to Consumer wholesale and the value of their licensing business in the market was over a billion dollars. That we could reposition Lucky Brand to be a cause marketer the company did a tremendous amount of good work in Downtown LA taking. For an older Millennial younger Gen-X.