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...attached; she's selling this one for a mere $200. Oh, and how about those Prada evening shoes she's got priced at just $140? They'd usually set you back several hundred bucks. So what's the catch? Well, most of the chichi clothes, shoes and accessories on sale at this shop are ... well, preworn. Weeks' boutique is in fact an upscale version of the ubiquitous Oxfam charity shop, a humble mainstay of Britain's shopping streets...
...good success with other types of specialty stores: it has 120 used-book shops in the U.K. and recently opened five shops dedicated to selling used vinyl LPs and CDs. Farquhar says the Notting Hill shop's makeover should increase that site's revenues 100%. The boutique's average sale is $40, four times the average sale at a regular outlet. The other two Oxfam fashion boutiques are in the wealthy London enclaves of Chelsea and Chiswick. Oxfam expects to eventually extend the idea to upmarket urban areas around...
...stock, and nothing goes to waste. Oxfam receives around 150 tons of clothes each week, which are typically sold at the shops that receive the donations. That's why the designer boutiques are expected to work best in posh areas. "Like attracts like," Farquhar explains. Clothes deemed unsuitable for sale at individual shops end up at Oxfam's "wastesaver" operation in Huddersfield, north England. From there, some are sold via Oxfam's online shop, while others are sold in bulk to dealers in developing countries. Clothes that are completely unwearable are shredded and sold for use as mattress stuffing...
...those independent voters who are in motion that Obama needs to capture if he is to win. One longtime Republican analyst, who was worked on just about every GOP presidential campaign for a generation, commented this week that Obama was on his way to making the sale to some number of persuadable independent voters in June and early July when he began to stumble. What appeared to be confusing - and in some cases contradictory - policy statements on Iraq, FISA and the Supreme Court decision on guns, in the view of this analyst, "froze" a number of independent or unaligned voters...
...Those remarks put that sale on hold," this analyst said. "It doesn't mean he can't win them over eventually. But it reminded them that he might be just another politician, not the magical, inspirational, agent of change they had been hearing about. And if he keeps that sort of thing up, he will lose them for good...