The husband-wife team of Richard and Margarette Baze are top performers in the thrift store franchise’s system while the parent company, BaseCamp Franchising, is posting double-digit annual sales growth across its two brands.
When Richard and Margarette Baze became Uptown Cheapskate franchisees in 2015, they recalled there being a stigma about shopping at thrift stores. Many consumers avoided them, the Bazes said, because they didn’t want to be seen hunting for secondhand clothes.
“It isn’t like that so much now with things getting tighter for families and retail clothing prices going ridiculously higher,” Richard Baze said. “Shopping in our boutique thrift stores has become more accepted and even trendy, especially among young people who are looking for name brand clothes at great prices.”…