ROCHESTER — Alex Thompson has devoted the previous three years of his life amassing sneakers and clothes with the concept of bringing a high-end resale store to the Rochester space.
Thompson, a Rochester native opened The Drip, a excessive finish resale store on Could 8. As a collector, there’s comparatively nowhere to buy the high-end resale market in Rochester, and Thompson hopes to eradicate a visit to the Twin Cities for objects like Jordans, Yeezys and different objects shoppers can’t discover within the space.
“I have been shopping for garments for nearly so long as I have been shopping for sneakers, which is like three years,” Thompson stated. “So I am simply trying to eliminate all my stuff. I received a number of stuff and I am pleased with it. I picked out a number of manufacturers that you simply can’t get in Rochester, like Lacoste or Billionaire Boys Membership.”
Thompson began his assortment as a result of he had some further earnings he didn’t know what to do with. He has a ardour for sneakers and clothes, however in some unspecified time in the future his assortment grew uncontrolled and had sufficient objects to open a retailer. All of the objects in The Drip have come from Thompson’s assortment one thing of which he is proud.
“Footwear are type of a distinct segment factor,” Thompson stated. “In case you are into sneakers, you are keen to spend $200 or $300 on a pair of sneakers. Makes complete sense, however for those who’re not into sneakers, it would not actually make sense. In order that’s why we’ve got a number of clothes choices right here between $20 and $50 that anyone can get.”
Thompson is at the moment displaying summer season clothes like shorts, slides, and T-shirts. When fall comes round he’ll swap these objects out for hoodies and sweatpants.
Along with the clothes objects, Thompson will swap out the intense colours clients would possibly see now for extra fall and winter coloration schemes.
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“Women and men even have the identical width of sneakers,” Thompson stated. “That is why I think about virtually all of the sneakers unisex and why on every one in all these indicators that can checklist what the lads’s sizes are and what the ladies’s sizes are.”
Thompson additionally talked about how onerous it’s to search out male marketed sneakers in vibrant colours. Footwear marketed towards girls extra generally are available in pinks, purples and light-weight blues. By promoting the entire sneakers as unisex, the patron could have extra choices in colours that attraction to them.
The Drip carries a number of extremely desired objects like Air Jordans within the College of North Carolina colours or Chicago Bulls colours, the place Michael Jordan attended school and performed most of his skilled profession.
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Thompson has greater than sufficient merchandise to inventory The Drip, so he isn’t trying to purchase extra stock. He knew for the previous yr that he wished to open a resale retailer and has been working to purchase stock in all colours and sizes for it.
“Individuals see the phrase resale they usually assume that they are gonna promote it to me,” Thompson stated. “I’ve sufficient stock to final for a number of years, so I am not trying to purchase anyone’s sneakers.”
The Drip provides all kinds of sneakers and clothes in all kinds of sizes and types. Thompson hopes that buyers can discover what they’re in search of proper right here in Rochester.
The Drip
3020 N Broadway Ave Suite 300, Rochester, MN 55906.
507-884-8943.
www.thedripmn.com.
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Sara Guymon just lately joined the Put up Bulletin as a enterprise reporter.