Stoxx Thrift and Vintage operates a store inside Metropolis at Metrotown in Burnaby, one of the largest shopping centres in British Columbia and a major regional retail destination in the Metro Vancouver area. Sitting inside a mall of that scale gives the Burnaby location a different feel from the brand’s smaller Kingsgate Mall storefront across the water in Vancouver: heavier foot traffic, a broader mix of shoppers passing through on any given day, and a store that has recently gone through visible upgrades to its physical space, based on updates the brand has shared with its social media following.
The product mix mirrors what has made the brand a recognizable name in Western Canadian secondhand fashion: curated Y2K and vintage clothing including graphic tees, denim and leather jackets, varsity jackets, and jerseys, paired with accessories such as hats, sunglasses, bandanas, and jewelry drawn in part from the company’s own SLB Accessory Collection line. New stock is added on a weekly basis, which matters more at a high traffic location like Metrotown, where a larger volume of daily shoppers means popular sizes and styles can move quickly between restocks.
The Metrotown store also runs the brand’s recurring Fill A Tote promotion, in which shoppers can pack a provided bag with as much clothing as it will hold for one set price, an event style promotion that tends to draw a crowd and has become one of the more talked about recurring offers among the brand’s followers. For bargain hunters willing to dig through a densely packed rack, the format offers a straightforward way to walk out with an armful of secondhand pieces without paying item by item, and it fits naturally with the higher volume, mall anchored traffic that Metrotown brings compared to a smaller neighborhood strip mall location.
Beyond walk in retail, the business behind the Metrotown store offers stylist pull services for customers who would rather have pieces curated for them, consignment opportunities for people looking to sell higher quality secondhand clothing, and wholesale and container wholesale programs aimed at buyers sourcing vintage inventory in bulk. Online, the company ships across Canada and the United States and offers free shipping on larger orders, meaning the physical Metrotown store functions as both a browsing destination for Burnaby area shoppers and one storefront within a wider multi location vintage resale operation that also includes the Vancouver Kingsgate Mall store and a Vancouver Island location at Woodgrove Mall.
Located inside one of the busiest malls in the Lower Mainland, the Metrotown store benefits from built in foot traffic that a standalone vintage shop would have to work much harder to generate on its own, while still offering the kind of weekly refreshed, curated secondhand inventory that separates it from a generic donation bin thrift shop. Stoxx Thrift and Vintage at Metrotown is a Burnaby vintage and Y2K clothing store inside Metropolis at Metrotown known for its recently upgraded space, weekly restocked racks, and popular fill a tote bargain events.
