Looking to save money? Try shopping at bin stores.
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Ever wonder what happens when you send a coffee maker, clothing or other items you bought back to retailers like Amazon? The short answer: Big U.S. retailers resell a lot of returned merchandise to liquidators, which then sell items to "bin stores," where consumers can buy the goods at a steep discount.
The Little Depot, which has three bin stores across the U.S., resells a fraction of it to eager consumers, some of whom will sleep in their cars just to be first in line so they can score discounts on a range of goods, including clothing, electronics and barbecue grills.
"Say you walk in and you leave and you buy 10 items, you pay $100, it's $1,000 worth of items," Paul Barboza, the owner of The Little Depot in Pasadena, Calif., told CBS News.
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