A craze for second-hand goods has once again swept Yekaterinburg.

      A crowd of schoolchildren and pensioners stormed a large secondhand store in the shopping center on Pobedy Street in Yekaterinburg early in the morning. On Saturdays new items are brought there, writes E1.RU editor Irina Porozova, who became a chance witness to the hunt for secondhand branded goods.

      The secret is simple — the portal writes, they bring in a lot of outdated items from well-known brands. In Uralmash it is a very popular place. People queue up an hour before opening. Young people literally pounce on the racks and shelving in search of "firms", as they used to say in the '90s.

      "Like madmen, Yekaterinburg residents scatter across the sales floor, running through it and falling over themselves," Irina Porozova wrote in a photo report from that store back in 2023. The wild excitement dies down within the first half hour.

      On that visit one of the lucky shoppers showed reporters his haul — a belt whose pattern points to Gucci. Such items are later resold at prices several times higher.

      The secondhand sellers do not disclose their daily takings. According to the Kontur.Fokus service, the store "ZigZag Udachi" belongs to individual entrepreneur Yulia Sergeevna Kozlova from Chelyabinsk; the company's main activity is retail trade of used goods. The firm was registered in 2019.

      It should be recalled that in July Maria Perrier, a blogger living in France, said that the main consumers of worn clothing from France until recently were Ukraine and countries in West Africa. But over time local buyers have begun to prefer new clothing from China.