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Alabama retailer promoting objects from vacationers’ misplaced baggage attracts vacationers

Editorial Board Published October 4, 2024
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A retail retailer in Scottsboro, Alabama, is giving a second wind to misplaced baggage by reselling objects left by vacationers. 

Unclaimed Baggage is a 50,000-square-foot retail house attracting greater than 1 million individuals every year. It has welcomed guests from over 40 nations. (See the video on the prime of this text.)

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Unclaimed baggage is the nation’s solely retailer of misplaced baggage. It holds “exclusive partnerships” with main airways, Hood stated.

“A bag must be lost for a minimum of 90 days before it’s officially deemed as unclaimed … But if after those 90 days it’s still unclaimed, then a claims process occurs. Travelers will be compensated for their lost items and then those bags are deemed to salvage. So, unclaimed baggage steps in as a salvage partner to the airlines.”

Unclaimed Baggage in Scottsboro, Alabama, has grow to be a vacationer scorching spot with guests curious to see what baggage vacationers depart behind. (Unclaimed Baggage )

Unclaimed Baggage has a truck driver who makes weekly stops at companions, bringing objects to the warehouse the place a staff goes by way of the baggage to find out whether or not to promote the objects, donate or recycle them.

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Objects sometimes are priced at 80% off the instructed retail worth.

“We definitely want to offer our guests not just a treasure hunt but a bargain hunt as well,” stated Hood.

Unclaimed Baggage as soon as discovered a reside rattlesnake in somebody’s misplaced baggage. (Unclaimed Baggage)

Hood stated imaginations can run wild with the distinctive and odd objects they’ve come throughout.

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“The most shocking thing was a live rattlesnake,” stated Hood.

“He was in the outside pocket of a duffle bag, and we think he probably found his way in there while the suitcase or the duffle bag was being stored or maybe via transit.”

The shop has a museum exhibit that shows about 100 of the distinctive objects Unclaimed Baggage has come throughout. (Unclaimed Baggage; iStock)

On the retailer, there’s a museum exhibit that shows about 100 of the distinctive objects Unclaimed Baggage has come throughout.

The shop’s highest-ticket merchandise was a males’s platinum presidential Rolex watch that retailed for $64,000 and offered for $32,000.

Unclaimed Baggage’s highest-ticket merchandise was a males’s platinum presidential Rolex watch that retailed for $64,000 and offered for $32,000. (Unclaimed Baggage)

Unclaimed Baggage is open Monday by way of Saturday from 8 a.m. to eight p.m. and is closed on Sundays.

Fast tips about how to not lose observe of your baggage

Embrace correct identification with a sturdy tag.
Embrace identification inside the baggage in addition to outdoors.

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Take away all earlier barcode stickers to keep away from confusion for bags handlers.
Make your suitcase stand out to keep away from having one other traveler mistakenly take away it from a baggage carousel.

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