84 Business View - March 2015
Not Your Average
Thrift Store
Uptown Cheapskate out to boost the resale shopping experience
It should come as no surprise that Chelsea and Scott
Sloan wound up working together.
After all, the brother-and-sister tandem grew up along-
side parents who’d created a children-centric fran-
chise resale operation – Kid to Kid – that’s since
grown to more than 100 stores across the U.S. and
Portugal. The siblings grew up in the stores, and, upon
Chelsea’s return from a church mission to Alaska in
2006, they began planting the practical seeds for an
operation they could call their own.
Within three years, their college-age groundwork be-
gan to bear fruit.
The first location of their trendy resale clothing con-
cept for teens and young adults opened its doors in
Salt Lake City in 2009 and became a franchise of-
fering within months. It has subsequently evolved to
more than 40 locations in 17 states while becoming a
now three-year mainstay on Entrepreneur magazine’s
Franchise 500 – an annual listing of the franchising
industry’s top opportunities.
FRANCHISE
