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The Online Shopping Boom Is Over w/ Amanda Mull
Tech Won't Save Us
The Development of the Department Store in the United States
The department store is mainly like an urban concept as far as I understand. People are leaving cities, people are going out to the suburbs and all of a sudden they're shopping malls that are springing up. You get Walmart's, you get targets, you get discount retailers, dollar generals,. And they really benefit from the deregulation of trucking too, even more so than other types of change stores. Being able to bring more and more people into a consumer mindset is great for people who are trying to manage privatization. If you spend decades indoctrinating wealthier people into this mindset then you can see division within lower classes.
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