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FrozenTuna
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Ok, but what about mattress stores? Are you telling me they
aren't
for money laundering?
sp332
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Mattress Firm's parent company was up to some sketchy stuff.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-steinhoff-intlnl-ceo/stei...
The CEO resigned.
vageli
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> Ok, but what about mattress stores? Are you telling me they aren't for money laundering?
Margins are insanely high on mattresses. Why the connection to money laundering?
velp
on Aug 7, 2019
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It's become a meme, likely due to the clusters of mattress stores that seem to pop up despite zero customers.
jonny_eh
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Planet Money covered that:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/12/13/676538506/why-...
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