Junket: Tossed & Found

Junket, post-retail (9/2018-now): we’re focused on developing supply chain strategy for reused goods, and have made a strategic move into wholesale logistics and online operations. Junket’s retail products (vintage & re-manufacture) are found at shopjunket.com. Junket as reuse shop (11/2012-8/2018): After launching brick & mortar operations in the fall of 2012, Julie used Junket's presence to champion the emergence of a sustainable shopping corridor along a formerly blighted stretch of Minnehaha Ave. During that time, Julie attracted & brokered the arrival of restaurant infrastructure in the Hiawatha neighborhood, citing the area's food forest reputation and a desire to better support area visitors and businesses. Before closing the business, a data set for future franchise of the brand was developed as the business pivoted to focus on supply chain development & ethical systems design. Junket, prior to retail (1/2010-10/2012): the business was launched from nothing by a cash-strapped single mama. Julie Kearns combined both corporate and guerrilla tactics to scale a distributed + online resale business out of her living space. During that time, she developed & designed brand & logo treatment, environmental mission/premise, and established marketing platforms in anticipation of a future national presence for the brand and for reuse as a socially normative practice.