Second hand and stock
Second hand – clothes, shoes, household and other things which were used. They weren’t bought within a season and that’s why they were marked down.
Usually, second hand is wholesaled in European countries and USA from the enterprises which specialize in collecting all these things, treating, sorting out, remaking and selling. The whole second hand goods have their price which depends on their quality.
Stock means things or inventory which are kept in a manufacturer’s warehouse. In this case “stock” – a shop and a warehouse season clothing goods remainder which weren’t sold.
Difference: second hand shops sometimes get new things, which can’t be called stock, because they are received from people or organizations. So they have nothing to do with trading network as well as second hand itself.
Second hand reasons to emerge
Charity
In European countries, USA and Canada, due to developed economy and industry people can afford to buy new clothes every season. That’s why people got used to give things they didn’t use for charity. There are such events as garage sale. People put stalls or just bring things outside. Here you can find everything: clothes, shoes, nice accessories, durable furniture, kitchen utensils, sporting equipment and many other things, so you can buy anything for symbolic fee.
Charity organizations work
In prestigious city boroughs there are containers where people put things they don’t need. Each container has logo of a charity organization. The things gathered from containers are transported to second hand sorting factory. At this factory clothing is sorted according to type, decrepitude and season. Then, all things are treated with disinfectant or other cleaners, packed and transported into selling points. Charity organizations sell second hand things to get financing for their work. The essence is as following: creating new working places, founding schools for children, building hospitals with cutting edge technologies equipment, providing lower classes population with clothing and food.
Marking
Different enterprises, factories and firms mark their goods according to their gradation. American companies offer things of such categories: AAA, AA+, A, B and etc. There are also other marking types: cream, 1st category, 2nd category and rags.
Stock reasons to emerge
Overproduction at factory
Stock by manufactures or pre-season stock is batches of original clothing which wasn’t transported to trading networks. Reasons are as following: 1) surpluses: there is left fiber after producing new batch of clothing, and in order not to lose it, manufacturer makes the same clothing and sells it with the help of stock wholesale companies. It means that these things are brand new clothes bought wholesale at factory.2) reason: delivery of goods failed (maybe because of trading network refusal). To make room in huge warehouses and not to find new clients, the factory tries to sell clothing to stock wholesalers.
Wholesale dealers’ stocks
Wholesalers buy clothing from official manufacturers. These clothes weren’t sold out to retailers completely because of objective causes. “Sales life” of European brands clothes collection lasts 3 months. That’s why, if manufacturer produces 8 000 items, but shops buy out only 7 000, a company have a choice: to look for new clients or wholesale the remainder to companies dealing with stock.
Stock trading networks
In western countries stock has become the most popular way to buy clothes. These things are clothing which wasn’t sold within a season. Stores usually remove them from shop windows and send to special warehouse. And these clothes are wholesaled from storehouse.
