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		bobthepanda on April 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking ... The article mentions that they only buy returned overstock items from manufacturers at steep discounts. So this stuff was getting made anyways.

glenneroo on April 18, 2019 [–]

Not quite true. From the article:

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

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