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[quote=Anonymous]The problem is also that shoppers have gotten cheap as dirt in the last twenty years.  As others have noted, BR was pretty good quality 20 years ago. So I specifically remember buying a really nice pair of linen pants there in 2001. This was before BR had frequent storewide sales. Those pants were $80, and on my $27k salary at the time, felt extravagant.

I checked on google and $80 from 2001 is worth $125 today.  But BR has only raised the list prices for their pants to maybe $100, AND they have weekly 40% off sales.  Which means most people are getting their pants for $60 these days at BR. In 2021 dollars!!!  Taking into account the 40% constant discounts, BR would need to have pants at list price of over $205 for them to actually cost $125 - the equivalent of what they were charging in 2001.  Can you imagine if BR listed pants at $205?? And sold them for discounted prices of $125?  People would lose their minds, because no one pays that anymore.  Instead of keeping track with inflation, they’ve effectively slashed their prices by almost half compared to twenty years ago, because that’s what customers want.  [/quote]

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