SAYBROOK – Saybrook Plaza procuring middle has welcomed a brand new addition, with the opening of Trend For Much less, a reduction clothes retailer providing surplus name-brand clothes.
Proprietor Vinay Sikka, who presently resides in Colorado, mentioned the shop formally opened final Sunday and caters to budget-conscious consumers.
He believes the shop is an ideal match for the neighborhood, which has restricted reasonably priced clothes choices apart from Walmart in Ashtabula Township.
Saybrook Plaza Buying Heart is positioned at 2460 West Prospect Rd.
“It's a really blue-collar neighborhood and it matches, you realize, the finances,” Sikka mentioned. “I didn't suppose he was going to take action properly, however he’s doing very properly. We’re pleased with the efficiency as a brand new retailer. Our greatest attraction is Large Eagle and Large Heaps. “They entice lots of people.”
Sikka mentioned he has different Trend For Much less places in Kansas Metropolis and the Chicago space.
“We're promoting their similar product, which we purchase from wholesalers, and that's their factor,” Sikka mentioned. “Costco, Walmart, Goal, it may very well be anybody, Macy's, whoever has overstock.”
Since its opening, the shop has been properly acquired.
Retailer supervisor Shania Feliciano mentioned there are garments for kids, men and women. There are presently summer season objects priced at $5 at the back of the shop, and there are plans to do the identical for winter clothes.
“We see many ages,” he mentioned. “Everybody could be very pleasant. “We want to provide them an reasonably priced value as a result of that is Ashtabula.”
Feliciano mentioned there are plans to supply perfumes, cosmetics and equipment.
Sikka believes his efforts to draw new companies to the world will assist revitalize the procuring middle.
Along with Trend For Much less, she plans to open one other enterprise referred to as Equipment For Much less, which is able to promote new home equipment with small scratches or dents at discounted costs.
“We’re promoting new, scratch- and dent-free home equipment for half value, and we can be direct competitors to House Depot and Lowe's, the place they’re offered at full value,” Sikka mentioned. “My purpose is to begin a few my very own companies. This middle has been quiet for a very long time. It’s mandatory, there’s nothing else on the market. The purpose is to fill the middle with each tenant.”
Potential tenants embody One Senior Care and Household Farm and House.
With the Christmas procuring season approaching, it was a very good time for the introduction of a brand new retailer.
“Individuals are shopping for $100 to $150 value of garments and doing all of the Christmas searching for their children and grandkids,” Sikka mentioned.
As the shop continues to develop, it hopes to rent extra native employees and develop its stock to satisfy demand.