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Among the economic situation that the country is going through by pandemic and the difficulty in acquiring clothes and certain articles made by the national industry, these initiatives, which take their name from the English "garage", have become fashionable, like many of thearticles that sell.

This form of commercialization is not recent in Havana, but in the last year with the pandemic he has gained popularity, as the Cuban News agency verified on a tour of some of the spaces.

Isis García González, a 17-year-old student, said that the sale of garage has been the perfect opportunity to generate income and not depend on their parents' money when facing certain expenses, it also allows you to use the time that COVID-19has left him free.

What started more informally with their friends on weekends, where they gathered to sell the garments that no longer served or liked, now it is a family venture, in a portal of the capital Vedado, where clothes are marketed for childrenand adults.

Aassay Corona, her cousin and who also participates in the initiative, explained that the project, which opens every Saturday and Sunday, has been growing;"Being many people in a central place, and part of our clientele, they asked us if they could bring their clothes in disuse, so we began to accept days before sales a number of garments and if they are not marketed they are returned".

The recent resolution 102 of the Ministry of Internal Commerce (MINCIN), which repealed the no.97, gave legal support for garage sales and defined them as an eventual retail marketing mode, which are allowed to offer articles for domestic, personal, used, semi -new or new.

Claribel Quiroz Pinillo, a resident of L between 19 and 21 in El Vedado, said that this economic activity at the entrance of his building has almost become a project among neighbors.

For Rosy Peña Fernández, resident in the municipality of Cerro and Customer, this modality of sale continues to be a much cheaper option than to buy new clothes, however, lately prices in some places have exceeded the values of the garments, having inAccount that the vast majority are used.

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The organizers interviewed by the ACN agreed that they are the quality of the garment, their status (whether new or not) and their brand, the parameters that define their cost for the client.

The success of a garage sale depends largely on its promotion in social networks, according to Lisandra Herrera Benítez, a psychology student;WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram are the digital platforms you use to announce each new sale.

The young woman considered that thanks to that dissemination, customers come regardless of how far the planned activity with her friends, and in which they offer their clothes, recycled, of relatives and customers.

He highlighted, via WhatsApp, the learning that entails marketing, which has allowed them to adopt basic knowledge of business, accounting and marketing, something that initially only saw as the opportunity to generate income.

On one occasion we carry out this initiative with the purpose of collecting funds for the attention and care of animals that live in the streets, he said.

Alexa Pérez Delgado, a neighbor of October ten and assiduous to garage sales, said that as a result he has obtained items and clothing that otherwise, and given the high prices in the informal market, he could not have bought with his salary.

To make garage sales in Cuba, people do not require commercial license or self -employment, and this activity excludes the commercialization of lots of new imported articles and the national industry, animal skins, precious woods and food.

(Taken from ACN)

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