ThredUp brick and mortar store

[betabutton]

I cashed out my balance with ThredUp today and while searching for the difficult to find page to do that, I saw an asked question about whether sellers can drop off their bag(S) at the ThredUp physical store. The reply was "not now"  it implied that might be possible in the future.
i googled for more info and found this article.

www.racked.com/2017/6/27/15862174/thredup-secondhand-opening-stores

[kritter]

Very interesting that they are opening the first store in San Marcos which is right down the road from me. Fairly small town with a medium size college and a hoard of outlet malls.

Amazon must be opening a warehouse or something there because they have been advertising on the radio "Walk in the door to apply and out the door with a job" or something to that effect.

[Deleted]

Yep.

www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/retail/2015/08/e-commerce-giant-to-hire-1-000-in-new-san-marcos.html

Amazon.com Inc. — the largest retailer in the world — has agreed to open a fulfillment center in San Marcos, Texas, with plans to hire up to 1,000 people when it reaches full capacity.

The 855,000-square-foot facility, which will be the online retail giant’s fifth in Texas and about as big as a mall, will begin construction at the end of 2015 and is expected to open in 2017. It will hire 350 people upon opening.

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I wonder if ThredUp has (or is planning) a warehouse there?

The article Beta posted said they're opening 4 more stores this year -- I'm guessing those will be near their existing warehouses (Bay Area, central PA and IL).

[kritter]

San Marcos has really come into play for some reason.

It used to have such a great small town flavor right on the river.

Now the explosion.......

It doesn't even have an airport.

[Deleted]

Cheap land? Close to major highways? Low business taxes?

[val2525]

Cheap labor?

[kritter]

I don't think enough people live there for all the jobs. It will be good job opportunities for the college kids and probably the small towns around the area.

There is already an Amazon warehouse in Schertz which is a bedroom community of San Antonio. Now there will be 4 Amazon warehouses in Texas.

[SA]

Doesn't San Marcos have a really nice outlet mall?
Maybe taxes are cheaper there?

[allikat]

I wonder if the store will be set up as non profit and all the clothes that aren't accepted go into the store? I am a little cynical about Thredup since my last bag of 48 items all mid level brands Hollister, Abercrombie, Ann Taylor, Steve Madden, etc yielded $13 and that was before the $9.99 bag charge, my bag was before that was started.

Also they seem to lose at least an item or 2 per bag, lol.

[kritter]

Jun 29, 2017 3:00:51 GMT SA said:

Doesn't San Marcos have a really nice outlet mall?
Maybe taxes are cheaper there?

They have a couple of nice outlet malls.  I haven't been there in years and years because I would rather stick needles in my eyes than drive the 40 or so miles there on IH35.  Worst traffic ever between here and Dallas on that highway and there is always construction somewhere along the way.  Always, never fails.

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Just found this article, it's from June but it explains why ThredUp chose San Marcos:

techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/online-thrift-store-thredup-is-opening-physical-retail-locations/

Why San Marcos, a small town of ~60,000 located somewhere between the cities of San Antonio and Austin? Because that’s where the shoppers are, of course.

The thesis behind ThredUP’s new foray into physical retail stores is that the startup has a ton of customer data that it can use to improve the old-school shopping experience. And, what’s a better data point when deciding where to open a store than the locations of your existing customer? ThredUP is opening stores in the cities where it has a particularly high density of existing customers – with one of those places being San Marcos.