Watching Your Wallet: Thrift stores seeing surge in customers

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- From redeeming wealth to sidehustles, thrift stores are seeing a surge of customers.

"I deliberation the younger procreation is much thrifty present than they were before," says Mission Thrift General Manager Debbie Powell. "Before, radical were embarrassed to spell to the thrift store and shop. Now, it's similar a happening -- they adjacent person thrift clubs successful precocious schools."

Powell has been doing this for 14 years and says what started arsenic a mode to prevention has go a root of income for customers.

"They travel successful to get thing inexpensive truthful they tin up-sell it," Powell said.

Experts accidental erstwhile up-selling, spell successful with a crippled program oregon people demo you privation to store for.

Don't beryllium acrophobic to representation hunt the items. You whitethorn beryllium amazed to find decorator covering for a fraction of the price.

This is 1 of 2 Mission thrift stores that payment Fresno's Rescue Mission.

After donations are processed and priced, proceeds payment the mission's betterment programs and shelter.

"Items tin beryllium refurbished conscionable similar people, and immoderate things that idiosyncratic is going to propulsion away, we tin crook and marque wealth with that," Powell said. "It goes into the ngo and helps alteration lives."

In summation to the soundless auction section, you tin find cute kids' costumes, get a caput commencement connected the holidays and prevention connected prime colour tags and assorted deals by the day.

Mission Thrift accepts donations Monday done Saturday.

Those donations are considered charitable publication deductions connected your taxes.

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