“I thought I would get a lot of anger,” she said. “I feared that the book might get misrepresented as an elitist argument that people should buy only high-end, expensive stuff, but that’s not at all what I’m saying. I’m arguing that the discount culture has created a false dichotomy between quality and price that has made quality goods unnecessarily expensive.”
by...Ms. Ruppel Shell who is a correspondent
for The Atlantic and a contributor to
The New York Times. She is the author of:
“America’s Dangerous Liaison with Cheap'”