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Brits kindle Christmas spirit with second-hand gifts
Popular in Britain for personal shopping, charity stores and online second-hand retailers are seeing an unlikely surge in interest for Christmas gifts, a time of year often criticised for promoting consumerism and generating waste.
English designer Wayne Hemingway poses for a portrait inside Charity Super.Mkt at Brent Cross Shopping centre in north London on, December 17, 2024. (AFP photo)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
Bursting with customers one afternoon the week before Christmas, a second-hand charity shop in London's Marylebone High Street looked even busier than the upscale retailers surrounding it.
One man