I just checked Google maps. Within 4 miles of my house there are 18 mattress stores.
That is 1.13 mattress stores per square mile. The state of Alaska has 1.11 PEOPLE per square mile
The most enraging thing about mattress stores is there are so many of them they actually cause me to lose sleep
I mean FFS Bezos has managed to kill off every retail superpower, but mattress stores continue to spread and metastasize at will. They're like the ISIS of brick-and-mortar retailing
I should probably shut up about this before I lose the estimated 23.4% of my followers who are in the mattress store business
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