Rent a stand weekly or monthly to display your goods for sale, with a more or less high commission. This is the permanent garage sale concept, an activity that has developed in France in recent years. One of these has just opened in Chauray, near Niort.
“Buying cheap and avoiding waste, which totally corresponds to the current situation”, points out Nathalie Masson, co-director of Troc en Stock, a new ‘permanent garage sale’ which opened its doors two weeks ago in Chauray near Niort.
For several years in France, this new type of trade has multiplied. It allows customers to rent a sales space, by the week or by the month, setting their own price, to get rid of superfluous objects. For every sale, the store earns a 35% commission.
With the coronavirus crisis, most garage sales have been canceled in recent months.
“All the people who liked to make, exhibit or buy couldn’t. And now we make our shop available, heated in winter and air-conditioned in summer. People have time to come and browse, as was done in the villages” , says Matthieu Jourdain, co-director of the 600m brand2.
According to sellers and buyers alike, the concept seems to have already found its followers.
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