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Go to Asia, the department store is not dead in the slightest. Though, definitely changed a lot.

• conductr 2y ago
  That would make sense as it’s essentially a middle class novelty and their middle class is still rather novel.
  • TeaBrain 2y ago
    Novel where? I don't think this is a good explanation. Japan has had department stores for the better part of the last century.
    • conductr 2y ago
      Sure, Japan is probably one of the largest exceptions in all of Asia. I wasn't making a absolute statement, more relative. So in general directional terms, I guess I was thinking more so of China/India (that are individually over 10x Japan's population) and have a middle class consumer for only a couple decades now. Many other countries are closer to mirroring China than Japan and some don't even apply here because they don't have a significant middle class yet. I thought it would be obvious that China/India is most of Asia.
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