Go door to door in your neighborhood with a flyer. "Wanting to start a thrift store. I will be making rounds to pick up items you don’t want on xx date. "

Ask in the flyer for phone calls.

List what you won’t/can’t take.

Rent a truck to pick stuff up. Rent a store front (short term at first with a lease option after 30 days)

Only one way to get started, just get started. Then hire someone and hit the storage auctions.

Damn, that’s a cold ass honky.

Rag houses

Where I live the thrift people go to all the garage sales very early and buy lots of stuff at one time. And some of them semi specialize in things like vinyl records or dishes or something like that.

Consignment stores are great no purchase of inventory.

Why not order them from abroad?

YOU DO NOT BUY you get them as donations to your non profit or 501 C 3 company

Sourcing from china?