The hottest US business right now is storing people's stuff
For operators of self-storage facilities, low operating costs and high demand have translated into fat margins
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A DAY hardly passes without the US retail industry sustaining fresh wounds as malls and outlets shut their doors. Americans are still shopping, though - online, in their pyjamas - and physics dictates that their new stuff, and old stuff, go somewhere.
Welcome to the renaissance of self-storage.
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