Secondhand
Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2020.
Format: Eaudiobook
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 03 min.)) : digital.
When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably across the country-or even halfway across the world-to people and places eager to reuse what you don't want. In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail of unwanted objects from the closets, garages, and storage units of Middle America to epic used-goods markets in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Ghana, India, Malaysia, and beyond. Secondhand takes us through the often painful and heartbreaking process of cleaning out a lifetime's worth of possessions and shows that used stuff still has a place in a world that values the new and shiny-it entertains us, makes fortunes, fulfills needs, and transforms the way we live and work.
Subjects:
Minter, Adam, 1970- -- Travel.
Secondhand trade.
Consumer behavior.
Sales personnel -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Minter, Adam, 1970- -- Travel.
Secondhand trade.
Consumer behavior.
Sales personnel -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9781690581352 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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Electronic resource.
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Read by Daniel Henning.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Digital content provided by hoopla.
Read by Daniel Henning.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.