Twenty-five dollars doesn’t buy much these days—maybe a mediocre lunch for two or a couple of movie tickets if you skip the popcorn.
But at Buy The Pound Thrift Store in Kansas City, that same amount of money can fill an entire shopping cart with clothes, shoes, books, and household treasures.
No wonder people are making pilgrimages from every corner of Missouri to experience this retail phenomenon.
The concept sounds almost fictional in today’s economy: a massive warehouse where everything is priced by weight, not by item…