"Thrive Exchange" used-clothing shop coming to former Found location

[ron_newman]

Signs in the windows and doors of 255 Elm Street indicate that Thrive Exchange will soon replace Found at that address. Like its two predecessors in the space (Found and Poor Little Rich Girl), Thrive will be a used-clothing shop.

EDIT: They also have a hidden home page, seemingly unreachable from their front page. No idea why.

Comments

::crosses fingers::

[beinneighe.livejournal.com]

::please have plus-size clothing, please have plus-size clothing::

RE: ::crosses fingers::

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

My thought exactly.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Oooh. I have a whole trunkful of cute shit that Buffalo Exchange would not take. Maybe I'll save it!

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

That's optimistic.

[ron_newman]

I'm not sure what you mean? Outfitting the space for another store of the same type shouldn't take very long. I've heard that it may open as soon as July 1, which is when the owner's non-compete agreement with Second Time Around expires. (He founded that store, then left it.)

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

I mean that because two used-clothing stores in a row failed in that spot, trying for a third seems like it would require a great deal of courage.

But used-clothing stores cluster together for good reason - they form an ecosystem of shopping - and after all, Pizzeria Posto opened successfully in a spot where half a dozen restaurants had failed there before. So they very well could get the formula right this time.

[teko.livejournal.com]

So they very well could get the formula right this time.

Suggestions for their 'formula', in case they're reading:
1. Your prices for used clothing should not be astronomically higher than that of comparable new clothing.
2. Cater to a wide range of customers: men, women, kids, plus sizes, fashionistas, costumers.
3. Keep the attitude to a minimum. You are a used-clothing/consignment shop, not Neiman Marcus.

[nomacmac.livejournal.com]

I would also like to see them carry things other than clothes. With so many people moving in & out of the area, I think there is a demand for small furniture and household items like lamps, dishes, etc. I thinks something like a well curated Goodwill could succeed in that space.

[teko.livejournal.com]

Sounds like they have an established business model and support business structure, so I'm hoping this does well. Interesting that they include Goodwill as a 'charity partner'.

[kelkyag]

The hidden home page is probably still under construction and intended to be available for review, not public view.

Hope they did their background research!

[ron_newman]

I think I ended up there by googling "thrive exchange" "second time around". Somehow Google found that page even though I see no way to navigate to it from the front page.

[kelkyag]

I would not be surprised if Google's bots check a lot of standard urls as well as the top level for any domain they're aware of.

[smammy]

I don't think GoogleBot guesses URLs. But SquareSpace probably publishes a machine-readable site map that GoogleBot can use.

[kelkyag]

<pokes> Not obviously-to-me as rendered, but there's some code for a navigation bar (not displayed?) that points to the home and about and other pages.

[zmook.livejournal.com]

If we're geeking out about it, the nav bar with all its links is present in the HTML of the current home page, and it's only hidden with a CSS 'display:none'. Pretty sure GoogleBot doesn't bother parsing CSS, so to Google everything's totally visible.

[ron_newman]

Yeah, probably. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet and (508) 000 - 0000.

[zmook.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if it was another chain. But it seems like a brand new business with an incomplete website and only the one location, only the "how it works" page includes the phrase "just call your local Thrive Exchange boutique", which suggests some ambition for expansion. Owner says he previously created Second Time Around and Toronto's Kind Exchange.

Actually, looking at it, that "call your local boutique" phrasing may just have been copied from the Kind Exchange website.