Stores wind up heavily discounting the used goods to get them back out of the store.
These include the biggest online marketplaces like eBay, brick-and-mortar music and game retailers, and Goodwill all concerned they may lose their right to freely sell used goods.
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Knowing that the demand for used goods could increase in our slow-growth economy, Sageworks analyzed how this type of retailer (second-hand stores, thrift shops, used good stores, etc.) fares differently from its retailing peers.
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For those of you who know Goodwill only as the chain of retail storefronts (there are 2, 800) where you can donate or purchase used goods, it might be surprising to learn that the retail business and several other Goodwill operations are singularly focused on funding programs that enable Americans to find jobs, train for them, and practically prepare for them.
For example, in the course of reporting the story, Luxury For Less: New Web Sites And Shops Offer Gently Used Designer Goods, Forbes contributor Wendy Goffe bought the handbag pictured above at the San Francisco consignment shop, Cris.
The third step was to build an even larger more magnificently wonder of technology in Puerto Rico, where the ships dock full of used electronic goods to be recycled rather than dumped in the sea, or shipped to India to be stripped by young workers whose health could be threatened by processing the recycling by hand.
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Scarce land, labor, and capital goods must be used producing those specific goods that are most valued by members of society.
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The biggest source of solid fats in kids' diets is what's used in baked goods.
He opened a small textile store that used to supply goods to the erstwhile rulers.
Currently Facebook payments focuses on virtual goods used in social games produced by the likes of Zynga.
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While some have been detected before a transaction has taken place, others have been used to buy goods.
It also continued to bomb tunnels used to smuggle goods and weapons into the blockaded territory from Egypt, the military said.
H-bomb, mathematics was the sums he had used to price goods in the draper's shop he had run before going into politics.
The measure also would place an 18-year limit on the filing of lawsuits relating to harm caused by goods used in the workplace.
First and most important, products that are consumed in public, directly or indirectly, command huge price premiums relative to goods used in private.
The government has rejected reports it is considering changing its aid policy to insist funds are used to purchase goods and services from UK suppliers.
Adrien told Owen about the wooden bikes they used to ride in Rwanda giant lumber vessels, more like scooters, used to carry goods and scream down hillsides.
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It might meet part of its obligations, including public-sector wages, by issuing small-denomination IOUs that could in turn be used to buy goods and pay bills.
There are hundreds of illegal tunnels along the Egypt-Gaza border - they are used to get goods past the blockade but also to smuggle in weapons and people.
The Gejdenson draft contains twenty-two sections, most of which effect a complete rewrite of the procedures and standards used in controlling goods and technology for national security reasons.
But Prof Cook said parts of the sea - and the whole canal system - froze at a time when canals were still being used to transport goods.
Whole debit or credit card numbers where the expiry date is known can easily be used to obtain goods over the internet or on the telephone, known as "card-not-present fraud" (CNP).
He did so and sent it to Gaza through one of the hundreds of tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border used to get goods into Gaza prohibited by Israeli restrictions, things such as weapons and cars.
Much of the weakness in recent months has been in types of capital goods used heavily by the construction and motor vehicle industries, but we have seen some softening in the demand for other types of capital goods as well.
Weibi can be used to purchase virtual goods for gaming and value-added services on the Sina Weibo site.
The generation that is under 35 and living in the cities is becoming used to having luxury goods and to foreign brands.
By bringing small businessmen together as buyers, he has been able to replace the powerful monopolists who used to distribute these goods.
Could Facebook Credits ever be used to buy real goods, putting it in direct competition with the likes of Amazon, PayPal and eBay?
Instead, the company is now focused on growing Credits, its universal virtual currency that can be used to purchase virtual goods in third-party Facebook games and apps.
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