Thrift stores could see business boom as tariffs hike clothing prices

(NewsNation) — As tariffs endanger to rise prices connected everything from groceries to apparel, secondhand stores and resale platforms are poised to spot a surge successful business.

Since astir each covering sold successful the United States is imported, tariffs are expected to deed apparel peculiarly hard.

Many Americans are already seeing emails from retailers informing of upcoming terms hikes and shortages, but immoderate cost-conscious consumers are turning to thrift shops and online resale platforms to agelong their budgets.

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The Yale University Budget Lab estimates short-term user terms increases of 65% for clothes and 87% for leather goods similar shoes, handbags and belts, noting U.S. tariffs "disproportionately affect" those goods.

The secondhand marketplace has already been booming, increasing from a $20 cardinal manufacture successful 2017 to a projected $60 cardinal successful 2025, adjacent earlier the tariffs instrumentality afloat effect.

Apparel is expected to pb the resale boom, followed by books and furniture, according to Yale.

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Whitley Adkins, a manner and wardrobe stylist, said portion secondhand websites similar Poshmark, Facebook Marketplace and eBay are seeing much interest, consumers are discovering that thrifting is often a mode to find higher-quality goods.

"People thrift to prevention money, right? That's the archetypal happening you deliberation erstwhile you perceive the connection thrifty: you're going to prevention money. But I deliberation radical whitethorn oregon whitethorn not cognize that oftentimes, erstwhile you thrift, you not lone prevention money, but you find things that are higher quality," Adkins said.

A 10% tariff has been placed connected goods from astir countries; however, astir U.S. covering imports travel from Bangladesh, Vietnam and China, wherever tariffs scope from 37% to 145%.

Rental covering services similar Rent the Runway and Nuuly are besides expected to spot an summation successful business. But tiny U.S. businesses that trust connected overseas goods are apt to look a superior situation owed to rising costs.