There are various "Yinz Binz" out in the hinterlands of Pittsburgh I'm eager to check out: warehouses with random bins of stuff unsold by or returned to retailers. Monetized hoarding. The proprietors buy the bins in bulk, not unlike storage unit auctions, with only a general idea of what they're paying for. They may or may not do some preliminary sorting, but it mostly goes as-is into the retail warehouse. Defector's Jen Kinney spent a week hanging out at a small but typical operation on the other side of Pennsylvania: Philly's AMAZING BINZ.

Liquidators are nothing new: T.J. Maxx, Ocean State Job Lot, Nordstrom Rack. … There are middlemen like B-Stock, an eBay-like site where anyone can shop for truckloads of unwanted stuff. Influencers are buying pallets to unbox on stream, capitalizing

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