As new parents know, babies and toddlers require a lot of stuff - a lot of stuff they’ll soon grow out of. It was on a trip to Chicago with her two grandsons and daughter who had a third on the way that Dawn Parks was struck with an idea to help lesson the load for those parents.
“We started hitting all the consignment stores,” she says. “We just kept seeing that the market was right for it at home.”
So Parks and her daughter, Heather Straley teamed up to bring
“Lil Hearts Preloved Boutique” to Grand Ledge. The women opened the doors of the 2,600 square foot maternity, infant and children’s consignment store on N. Clinton Street Nov. 1.
“We’re overwhelmed with the amount of sales and consigned items we’ve sold and received,” Parks says. “We get new things in every single day. Even first time moms come in and say, ‘Babies grow out of things so quickly, there’s no reason to buy new.’”
Consigners benefit from a 50/50 split of sales with Lil Hearts, and they can also track their sales, browse new inventory and monitor their accounts though
myresaleweb.com.“Most of our consigners are also our shoppers,” says Parks. “They’ll just come in and spend what they’ve made in the store.”
In addition to maternity and child apparel, Lil Hearts carries toys and parenting necessities.
Source: Dawn Parks, Lil Hearts Preloved Boutique
Writer: Natalie Burg, News Editor
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