Urban Outfitters store: clothing from America
Urban Outfitters is one of the most successful sellers of affordable youth clothing in the USA. This brand’s annual revenue is more than $3,5 billion. It sells items for teenagers and young people that resonate around the world. New designs appear here every week and, as a rule, do not stay on the shelves for long. At the same time, Urban Outfitters has no presence in Russia, so for now products from this well-known brand can only be purchased in the USA.
16.05.2025
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The History of Urban Outfitters
The company was founded in 1970, almost 50 years ago, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (the same place where we have a warehouse!). Urban Outfitters was created by Richard Hayne, who was only 23 at the time. He was a business student at the University of Pennsylvania, and this was his graduation project: to propose an idea and create a small company intended to fill a niche that, in his view, remained open. Richard came up with the idea of creating a clothing company that made clothes comfortable for walking around the city. That is where the name came from: "Urban" — "City", "Outfit" — "Attire".
Gradually, from a single boutique, the company under Hayne's management grew into several stores in Pennsylvania, and then expanded into New York and other states in America. In addition to comfortable clothing for girls and guys that you could stylishly wear around the city, Urban Outfitters began to offer shoes, accessories, and even home goods.
Today, the company has more than 250 stores around the world. Including in Canada, Belgium, France, Ireland, and Germany. It has 17 thousand employees, and the official Urban Outfitters website has become one of the most popular places for people aged 15 to 35 to buy its clothing. And Richard Hayne, for whom all of this began as a simple student project, is now on the list of the top 400 richest people in the United States.
Shopping and shipping from the Urban Outfitters store
A big plus: the UrbanOutfitters online store is freely accessible to shoppers from Russia, you do not even need to turn on a VPN. Prices there are much lower than for products of this quality in any domestic boutiques. Besides, such fashionable items with fresh designs are simply impossible to find in Russia.
A big minus: shipping to Russia from the official UrbanOutfitters.com website is very expensive. At least $40, plus you pay taxes on the item and a duty for importing it into the country. If you buy only three or four items, such a purchase becomes not very profitable anymore (of course, if aesthetics matter most to you, then any prices are justified here).
The good news is that shipping from Urban Outfitters to Russia is handled by Pochtoy.com. With us, it starts at $11.99 per package, and besides, you do not pay any taxes, and if when making a purchase you specify the address of our warehouse in Pennsylvania, the shipping speed will even be noticeably higher than simply through the store's own efforts. And if you put together one large package with goods from different American online stores (for this, our warehouse allows you to store items until assembly for up to 70 days), the savings are even more substantial.
