World’s first: ReTuna, inaugurated in 2015, was named ‘the world’s first shopping mall designated for repaired, recycled and restored items’ by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2020. — AFP
ESKILSTUNA: Not content with the average neighbourhood thrift store, a city in Sweden has opened a whole shopping mall dedicated to giving pre-owned items new life.
The mall, located an hour’s train ride west of Stockholm in the city of Eskilstuna, consists of 13 stores and covers 5,000 square metres, employing between 50 and 65 people.
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