Usefull founder Adriana Kao fills up a customer's bottle with product at her product refill store in Oak Cliff on Saturday, June 29, 2024.It’s rare to be in a room with little to no plastic. The material is so common that we forget it’s all around us. But atDallas is joining a sustainable business trend with the opening of Usefull, a refillable product store in Oak Cliff.
“We all nowadays are aware of the importance of protecting our environment,” Wang said. “From the economic perspective, I think this also makes sense for both the sellers’ as well as the consumers’ point of view … I think it’s a win-win situation.” “In order to … make it more popular, we just need to make the consumers more aware of the existence of such options,” Wang said.When Kao first moved to Dallas about eight years ago, she was surprised there were no refill stores in such a large city. She lived in Southern California before moving to Dallas, which had many refill stores, but moved to Texas to work as a strategy analyst for AT&T.
Kao started her business with her savings, then opened the Oak Cliff store with the help of investment crowdfunding from friends, family and interested investors.