After operating in the U.S. for nearly a decade, online thrift store ThredUp is expanding into Canada and setting its sights on shoppers who want to stay stylish but save their dimes. "I always thought that ThredUp was not solving just a U.S. problem," he said in a recent interview. "It's really a first-world opportunity, so the ability to expand to other countries was something we really wanted to do." It doesn't have reliable Canadian data available, but Seston forecasts the market is around 10 per cent of the United States. "By bringing it online, it eliminates the stigma of walking into a second-hand store to buy things."

Source: CBC News June 29, 2017 15:11 UTC