Buffalo Exchange

a low-cost fashion resale favorite of students and fashion trend-setters, buffalo exchange is an independently-owned, family-operated, and privately-held company headquartered in tucson, arizona where kerstin and spencer block opened the first store in 1974. kerstin and her daughter, rebecca, continue to run the family business out of tucson. the company has 49 stores in 19 states in the united states. buffalo exchange prides itself as an advocate of the environment and raises funds for local charities through its tokens for bags® program, which offers every customer who opts to use a reusable bag (or to not use a bag at all) one “token” valued at $.05 usd (the cost to produce a bag) to donate to one of several local charities selected by the store employees. the program has generated over $656,798 for thousands of local nonprofit organizations since 1994 and has kept 13.1 million plastic bags from polluting the environment. in november, 2012, buffalo exchange discontinued the use of a