The Vinted phenomenon: how one woman sold her clothes – and
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In 2008, Milda Mitkute and a friend set up a website to clear out her closet. It soon grew exponentially. Now Vinted has 16 million UK users and is the first Lithuanian ‘unicorn’. Can it make secondhand our first choice?
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