Where I grew up (central Florida), we admittedly joked that it was “the land of outlet malls.” We passed outlet malls driving to the beach, driving on the highway, there were outlet malls seemingly in every town and off every major highway interchange.
So if there were this many all over the place – are they all actually giving me a good deal on clothes or other things? Or is it basically just the same as buying clothes on sale from a standard retailer’s sale section of their store or website?
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Imagine if Mercedes let Hyundai use their name and logo to sell cars in an area where Mercedes doesn’t have any dealerships and doesn’t sell cars. Like, idk, El Salvador or Eritrea.
So, you are buying a car that looks like a Mercedes, has a Mercedes logo/badge, and it says Mercedes… but it’s actually a cheaply made piece of junk made by Hyundai and sold to rubes who don’t know better.
That’s what an outlet mall is.
They’re typically out in BFE where land is cheap and taxes are low, and also where the brand doesn’t have their own stores. You get cheaply made crap from some 2nd rate sweatshop that just happens to use the same brand logo, so now, poor country folk can buy “Ralph Lauren” polo shirts (and one of the sleeves is a little shorter than the other, but who really notices that?).
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