Dec 16, 2016

Stash my stuff

The result was Stashbee, a company that links people with spare garage and attic space with those looking for cheap storage. The website connects me with Rowena who lives near me and has more attic storage space than I can dream of. The traditional self-storage industry is worth £440m a year in the UK and more than $20bn in the US, dominated by established companies like Public Storage and Big Yellow. Carlos Sousa, a sales manager with Access Storage, a national self-storage firm in the UK, is sceptical about storing with "Amateurs". While start-ups increasingly target the competitive social storage space, a new company is trying to make money out of our shorter-term storage needs - the few hours we have to kill before taking a train, for example.

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