These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable—meant to last only a wash or two (although they don't advertise that), and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.
This has had a significant impact on operating costs, reducing staff from about 160 to 100 and enabling the customer to make substantial savings in annual expenditure.
In this case, among certain consumer segments, such as those buying graduation gifts, it is likely that sales of calculators will be responsive to price changes for the digital clock, and vice versa.
There's a chance that eventually we'll return all this kindness with the extravagant spending that was once decried but now everyone is hoping will restart the economy.
Given the level of worry in America about health care, among businesses as well as consumers, the Republicans will have to do more to discredit it than just resurrect taunts about "Nanny Hillary".