> I can understand low cost, but why do the stores need to look and feel like you've been transported back to Cold War-era Soviet Russia? The alternative tends

> I can understand low cost, but why do the stores need to look and feel like you've been transported back to Cold War-era Soviet Russia? The alternative tends to be cheap and somewhat tacky/fake, which I find worse because it's still cheap but they're trying to mislead you into thinking otherwise. I'll take honest austerity any day. I'm sure cheap and nice are possible but it's not what I tend to see at other stores.