Would you visit a shirt.woot retail store?
How cool would a store filled with shirt.woot designs and hoodies be? They could even have previously reckoned designs and a place to trade your randoms!
Wonder if woot! has ever thought about it. The tricky place would be location...
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jbhswim
asked 4 months ago
A large inventory of shirt.woot designs would conflict with the novelty of the one-day-one-shirt model. That said, a small shop and broadened inventory based on the designs could work. Threadless operates its own stores in Chicago.
And to your question, yes, I would visit it, if the location was right.
To me part of the lure of sites like shirt.woot or teefury is the limited nature of the sales.
I would if I were in the general area, certainly! :) Dunno if I would make a flight to Texas for it though...
No, I wouldn't shop there, in part because I do most of my shopping on line for a reason, but mostly because shirt.woot.com is mostly a limited-edition seller, which appeals to me.
Cool, yes.
A viable business model ... not at the current prices they won't be. Woot shirts are made in the USA, which costs more than the blanks made in Mexico/Guatemala/Honduras/El Salvador/Pakistan/Bangladesh/India/etc. that other sites use. At $10-$15, Woot sells for less than many other sites.
Indeed, it's the limited availability aspect that is part of the appeal here - which is completely opposite in the retail world, where popularity runs the operation.
I could go on and on about why it wouldn't work ... but since it's not my style to write lengthy diatribes (coughaddercough), I'm just going to leave it at this. Upvotes for all, though!
I would shop there if it were near me but I like having awesome shirts that only a few+ thousand people around the world have.
Hmm ... a retail store that sells one product a day ... but in reality I agree that the limitlessness is a good plus for the shirts, although a legitimate woot shirt trading post would be fun.
No. I have little enough money as it is. The amount I would spend would break me.
@mokel22: My local Woot shirt trading post would be the thrift store - I dig through the racks, find a shirt, and trade them $2-6+ for them. Yeah, my hit rate is worse than 1-in-10 store visits, but sooner or later, some are bound to show up. It's also why my shirt collection is larger than it officially appears on my account.
I still pass some up from time to time, though. I left Business Shirt at the Puente Hills Goodwill; I couldn't justify $2 for it.
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