Re-Tail

Re-Tail is a new store in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, open between the hours of 6am and 11pm. It functions much like the Auction House and Flea Market from City Folk, as you can put your items up for sale at your own price, and villagers and visitors can buy them out.

The store is run by two alpacas, Reese, the pink alpaca who is in charge of the main shop, and Cyrus, the blue alpaca in charge of customization.

Reese runs the main part of the shop, and is where you’ll be going to sell your unwanted items for extra bells. You can also ask about selling your own items, where you can put them up or a set price for other characters to purchase. Villagers will randomly walk in and take interest in the items you have set for sale. You can try persuade them to either buy or not buy the item, however, if the price is too high, they will not purchase the item, regardless of your opinion. Reese does not gain any profit from this, and you gain all the bells made from the sale. If someone from another town purchases something you’ve put up for sale, the bells will be deposited into your account the following day.

Reese has also taken over the stalk market from Tom Nook, and now buys turnips from the player. Turnip prices change at noon and midnight, and are completely random - although it’s possible to pick up trends so you can predict when they’ll be high. Turnips can be bought from Joan on Sunday mornings, and sold to Reese on every other day. The general gist is to sell your turnips at a higher price than you bought them.
You can also sell items normally to Reese much like you would to the Nooklings, however, Reese will buy your items for a higher price.
If you try sell her “trash” items - like rotten fruit/turnips, garbage or fake painting - she’ll charge you a disposal fee (prices range depending on the item). Though if you place a trash can in your town or house you can easily avoid this disposal fee.

Cyrus is the second alpaca in charge of the shop, and runs a customization corner. At the start of the game, Cyrus will be seen sleeping. In order to wake him, the following conditions need to be met;
- Play the game for 7 days.
- Have 50 or more pieces of furniture, and 10 or more pieces of clothing in the catalogue.
- Sell more than 100,000 bells worth of items to Reese.

Once this criteria have been met, Cyrus will wake up the next day and allow you to access furniture customization. There are three times of remakes available; fixed, custom, and gem.
Fixed customization can be done on items which can have different appearances/colors.There are many types of fixed customization, but you can only chose from the options Cyrus gives you. Examples [ Basket Balls  | Stained Glass Lamp | Kotatsu | Scan ] - If you are looking for a variety of different remakes, check out this blog.

Custom allows you to add a pattern you have designed or scanned via QR code to a piece of furniture. You can not add a custom pattern to every piece of furniture. The series you can add custom patterns to so far include; Robo, Exotic, Kiddie, Ranch, Classic, Aline, Sloppy, Polka-dot, Modern wood, Green, Regal, and Blue series. Examples [ Tom Nook Cushions | Manaphy Room ]

Gem customization can be done by adding gems to your furniture to add a beautiful shine to their appearance. You can not add gems to every piece, only the ones which correspond with the gems color. So you can add a green gem to the Green series, a red gem to the Lovely series, a blue gem to the Blue series and so on. You can also add gems to the Piggy Bank.
Additionally, giving Cyrus three gold nuggets and 10,000 bells will make you a piece of gold furniture.
For information on how to obtain gems, click here .

Furthermore, if you give Cyrus a giant-clam shell (which randomly washes up on the beach) a piece of music (which you can get from K.K. Slider or from the Nookling Store), and 3,000 bells, Cyrus will make you a music box.
You can also give him a complete fossil set and he will shrink it down into a miniature model of the dinosaur - the price varies depending on the fossils, but costs 10% of the sale price.

It takes Cyrus 30 minutes to remake furniture, however there are exceptions where he may take longer.

Re-Tail also has some items going for premium each day (on the sign out the front) - the list usually has one item listed (2 if you have the Bell Boom ordinance) and changes daily. Items that are on premium can be sold for twice as much as they normally would, and is a good way to turn a profit off common items.