The British brand Boden offers sample-sale prices at an outlet on Biden Street in the industrial Pennsylvania city.
Clothing and accessories from Boden, a British label known for using bold colors and prints, are mostly sold online, via catalog or at department stores like Nordstrom.
But for the past few years, fans of the brand driving on Interstate 81 en route to upstate New York, visiting northeastern Pennsylvania or just on a lunch break in Scranton have been able to browse a selection of its offerings at a Boden outlet in that city.
Tucked away at 542 Biden St. in downtown Scranton, it’s currently the only free-standing Boden store in the United States — or anywhere for that matter, after the company’s two locations in London closed in recent years.
Why Scranton?
While it’s the birthplace of President Biden and home to the Electric City Trolley Museum and the Steamtown National Historic Site — not to mention a branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company from the sitcom “The Office” — the city isn’t exactly a shopping destination or a fashion capital.
But it is only about 11 miles away from Boden’s U.S. distribution center in Pittston, Pa., making it a convenient location for a store selling overstock and items returned to the company. The outlet was previously in Pittston for about a decade, before moving to Scranton in the summer of 2020.
