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BinStar, Where Shopping Is Like A Treasure Hunt, Opens First Store In Boston
"It started driving me crazy that we were paying good money to throw away good products," Laughlin told WBZ-TV.
March 28, 2024
BRIGHTON - A new bargain company has opened its first store in Boston and shopping there is like a treasure hunt. BinStar offers customers huge discounts on discarded and returned items from major retailers, and it's helping the environment.
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Founder Jack Laughlin used to work in the returns department for a big online seller. He says 7% to 8% of their inventory was ending up in a landfill because it wasn't cost-efficient to process returns and ship them to stores.
"It started driving me crazy that we were paying good money to throw away good products," Laughlin told WBZ-TV. "Returns cost money to process and shipping costs money. There is an opportunity to turn these problem children of retail into what became BinStar."
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