These men typically have hair that blurs the line between crew cuts and balding, and walk with multiple electronic devices clipped to their waists, a collective style that basically serves to broadcast I’d rather be riding my mower and/or cracking jokes about murdering the guy trying to date my daughter to that guy’s face. An industry consultant I meet calls them “a dying species, real live dinosaurs of retail, out of touch with themselves only slightly more than they are out of touch with America in general.” But as living dinosaurs they still are a dominant force in this particular epoch and
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