Buenos dias mis amigos,
Yesterday a group of us ladies went to the ropa usada outlets. As near as I can figure, that means used clothing. There was a string of such stores. The clothing arrives in those huge bails that you see in the photo. The bails are opened and dumped in big piles on the floor. When the piles spread too far, the forklift comes and scoops them back into a pile again. Some of the items are used and some still have the tags on them. You sort through the clothes and as you can see you often climb to the top of the pile to search. You buy items by the pound. One store had a 30 cent a pound pile and a 60 cent a pound pile. At another store it was 20 cents a pound.
Some of the customers must have been there for awhile as they were leaning against piles, fast asleep.
3 comments:
What a way to shop!
So what did you buy?
Brenda
I bought a pair of shorts for 23cents at one store and another pair for 20 cents at a different ropa usada store.
ropa- means clothes or clothing...(ropa interior means underwear)
usada- means used,second hand or worn out
What an experience, climbing mountains of used clothes.
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