Sentence examples for resale stores from inspiring English sources
People are really interested in finding treasures, whether it's from for-profit resale stores or charities.
The granddaddy of all celebrity resale stores is the Celebrity Glamor Shop (323-936-9060; www.cinemagLaBreashop.com) on LAvenueAvenue in Los Angeles.
The day before the show, he stopped by the Met to see an exhibition of clothes from Nan Kempner's wardrobe, and hit a couple of local resale stores, looking for Lacroix for Houston.
She would hide her purchases from her husband and then, in a paroxysm of guilt over the huge credit card bills, she would sell the items to resale stores and pawn shops for much less than she had paid.
The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art were among those that turned it down, leaving the Eames family facing huge inheritance taxes, the threat of eviction from their offices and the prospect of selling off the products piecemeal to resale stores.
"The rise of the euro, sky-high retail prices and the idea of recycling — those are some of the things that drive customers right to our door," said Laura Fluhr, an owner of Michael's, the 54-year-old grande dame of fancy resale stores on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
April was a record month for Ricky's Exceptional Treasures, a luxury resale store on eBay.
"It seems counterintuitive, but the big ticket items are flying out," said Ricky Serbin of Ricky's Exceptional Treasures, a luxury resale store on eBay.
At Act II, a designer resale store in Kansas City, Mo., pieces from St .John, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada and Dior are quick to vanish from the racks, said Gloria Everhart, the owner.
There we were, wrapped in an embrace, a man who had to sell stolen clothing in the street to earn a living, and a woman who has enough clothing to keep a Salvation Army resale store in business.
One team did research for the Earthwatch Institute in Maynard, Mass., on pricing adventure tours for the public, for example, she said, while another did a report for the Cape Cod chapter of Habitat for Humanity on the feasibility of creating a resale store for discarded housing materials like shingles, gutters and bricks.
