How a Family-Owned Franchise Makes It Work Two sisters and their retired mom team up to nurture a neglected franchise that sells used clothing for kids.

While she was pregnant with her second child in 2008, Carrie Rosenblum, a regional marketing manager for Wild Oats Market in Manhattan Beach, Calif., stumbled on a resale store she'd never noticed before: Children's Orchard, a franchise specializing in "gently used" kids' clothing, toys, strollers and other essentials.