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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Yes and no. There’s a couple of things going on. First, outlet malls tend to get outdated stuff that may not have sold during the first run. Just leftover inventory.
But there are also new products that are made for the outlet malls that are made more cheaply. For example, I wear New Balance 574s. I can’t find those at outlets, but I can find 515s, which are a slightly cheaper made version that I can only find in Outlet/discount type stores. You can’t even find them on New Balance’s website.
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