Gift registries gain popularity among cash-strapped students

The Container Store and Bed Bath & Beyond are among retailers encouraging graduating students to set up a registry and clue in relatives who want gift ideas.

As students head back to school and recent graduates start their first jobs, many are using gift registries — long an important feature of weddings and baby showers — to help them nab some of the items they want to set up their dorm rooms and furnish new apartments.

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