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This is True®

by Randy Cassingham

Overstocked
“LivingXL” is a new catalog that serves a need, says its owner, Massachusetts-based Casual Male Retail Group, and that need is XL — extra-large — products. Like the lawn chair that “Supports up to 800 lbs,” the “Big John” toilet seat that can handle 1,200-lb people, and a panoply of extra-sized clothing for the two-thirds of Americans who are overweight or obese — except they don’t use either of those words. “XL” is in, the old code phrase is out: “We knew from our Casual Male stores that they didn’t like ‘Big & Tall’,” explains CEO David Levin, “and they certainly wouldn’t like ‘SuperSize,’ especially with that movie ‘Super Size Me’.” So XL it is. “It is an underserved market,” said one enthusiastic customer. (AP) ...Actually, most of that market exists because they’ve been constantly overserved.
Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 13

2017-12-07 by rincewind