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Re:A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the... by bobthepanda on Thursday April 18, 2019 @01:08AM (#19688871)
The article mentions that they only buy returned overstock items from manufacturers at steep discounts. So this stuff was getting made anyways.
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Re:A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the... by glenneroo on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:37AM (#19691297)
Not quite true. From the article:

> Almost half of its products are leftover goods that manufacturers couldn’t otherwise sell.

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