![]() Ruppel Shell makes the interesting point that we now live in a world where there are high-end goods and discount goods, but no reliable in-between. ![]() The hidden costs of inexpensive purchases are then detailed from environmental destruction, human rights violations of the employees who manufacture, distribute, and sell the products, the dangers of poor quality goods to the consumer, the erosion of the middle class, and the fact that a lot of this cheap stuff isn't even worth what we pay for it. Interestingly, many of the originators went under by the 1980s to be absorbed by the more ruthless corporations of today. ![]() Ruppel Shell offers a fascinating history of discount stores from the late 19th-century to present. ![]() Cheap is an intriguing expose on the modern American desire for bargains fed by discount stores and discount ideology in more areas of commerce than one would realize. ![]()
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