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A Tradition of Family Farming. Sep Apple picking is also available until later in October as well.. The Farmstand Monday - Friday, am - pm.. Buy Locally Patch Orchards has a plethora of apple and maple products for sale online and at our Orchard Farmstand. The views expressed here are the author's own. Debra Hoffmaster and Alexis Davis were friends and neighbors for years before they decided to ditch their careers and do something "fun"—open a consignment shop where they would sell up-scale women's clothing and accessories.
Davis is a former accountant and Hoffmaster is a former government policy director. They recently opened —an upscale shop of lightly-used or sometimes even brand new, clothes and home furnishings—on Piney Orchard Parkway.
The women, who as neighbors in Severna Park became good friends and raised their kids together, spent many Saturdays shopping at consignment shops for fashionable outfits to wear to work or for play. They both loved the cozy atmosphere of the shops and the thrill of the hunt for a bargain.
Hoffmaster remembers the adrenaline rush she got when she found the perfect little red dress with pearls sown around the neckline in a local consignment shop a few years ago. While local business officials do not keep figures on the number of consignment shops in the county, the number of resale stores opening nationally in the past two years has grown 7 percent, according to figures kept by the National Association of Resale Professionals, an educational, networking and advocacy group based in the Detroit metro area.
The growth in consignment shops is a measure of how the value of the dollar has changed since the recession, Burdon said. Burdon said the negative stigma attached to shopping at consignment or resale stores has disappeared over the years as consumers became more comfortable with buying quality used items on websites such as eBay.
Hoffmaster and other consignment shop owners are quick to point out that their stores are not thrift shops run by nonprofit organizations. Those stores, they said, are typically are not as selective about the merchandise sold in their stores and do not share in the profit of the sales as consignment shop. Items in consignment shops must pass the store owner's inspection including being cleaned, pressed and having no broken zippers or missing buttons. Hoffmaster said she and Davis spent a year researching the market and scouting out locations before picking out a space in a small strip shopping center just over the railroad tracks on Piney Orchard Parkway.
They brought their business plan to Jay Winer, owner of the shopping center where there is a veterinarian as well as the popular and restaurants.
Winer's wife once had a consignment shop so he was familiar with how the business worked," Hoffmaster said. First, the women had the store renovated and the walls were painted a pleasing medium shade of purple. Next, they brought in clothing racks and an old armoire where they showcase designer purses.
To create the boutique atmosphere they admired when they were shoppers, there is plenty of space between the racks and the store carries a light and open feel.
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