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Article: Store chain banks on thrift
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- August 25, 2008
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SEATTLE - When Connie Wood's 9-year-old niece recently visited
from Florida, she needed some warmer clothes for the iffy Seattle
summer. In another time, Wood might have taken her to a department
store. But in this cooling economic climate, she decided to try
Value Village.
Wood was a first-time customer at the thrift-store chain, but
she's not the only shopper turning to Value Village to stretch her
dollars these days. At the Crown Hill, Wash., store, second-quarter
sales grew by more than 10 percent, and across the Northwest, sales
are up 7 percent.
"Business is good," said Mark Adams, who supervises three Value
Village stores. "We've been busier since gas prices have gone up."
The ...