Dec. 29, 2025
Those Amazon returns you could be waiting in line with this week eventually might end up at a store now open on West 41st Street in Sioux Falls.
Shane Oien, who previously co-owned similar businesses, has returned with a storefront currently at 3709 W. 41st St. In January, he plans to move it to part of the former Conlin’s, which mostly is being used as an expanded Montgomery’s but had some additional space to lease.
“The whole intent was always an upscale chic warehouse feel,” he said.
The reverse-logistics industry has had its challenges, prompting other players in the “bin store” or liquidation category to close locally or change their business models.
“Nationwide, 90 percent of the stores that were bin stores either went away or had to adapt,” he said.
He most recently operated out of a space in Tea and has a website but wanted to get back to having a presence in Sioux Falls. He opened temporarily in his 41st Street location under the name HomeLife around Thanksgiving.
“I didn’t want to miss another holiday season,” he said.
His current model combines deeply discounted merchandise with crates that steadily go down in price each day after they’re put on the floor. Those typically contain merchandise from Target and Amazon, where Oien has a contract to take products from the Sioux Falls fulfillment center.
“All retailers, including Amazon, have reverse logistics,” he said. “It’s what they do with the overstock, the seasonal stuff and customer returns. There’s typically a contract for them, and you bid on the contract and say you’ll take all the product from this facility. I went after the one in Sioux Falls because it makes total sense.”
The volume he anticipates also allows him to sell to wholesalers, including by the pallet.
Wholesale customers already are coming from hours away and might go back to stock a resale store in a small market far from a Target, for example, he said. Others are small-business owners who resell on major e-commerce platforms.
“So we’re kind of doubled up right now. Our warehouse and our business-to-business is in Tea, and as soon as we get opened up (in the future location), we can move.”
Hours for the Sioux Falls store are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday when new merchandise is stocked, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, 1 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, and noon to 6 p.m. on Monday.
The Montgomery’s addition is expected to be done early next year, and Oien opens to be operational in his portion by the end of January. Kids 2 College Furniture also is leasing a portion of the former Conlin’s space from Montgomery’s.
