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pjc50 on April 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: How much do you think it costs to make a pair of N...

A lot of that retailer margin goes into (a) wages, i.e. the jobs that everyone is supposedly trying to create, and (b) rent.

Gothmog69 on April 9, 2025 [–]

I think part of the bet of tariffs is that people will be less likely to go to physical stores moving forard anyways

themaninthedark on April 10, 2025 | [–]

Things have been moving in that direction since at least 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse

I would argue earlier as malls stopped being built by 2007....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_mall

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