Reading, PA - Outlet Capital of the World - Discount Mecca of the East

Outlets first appeared in the Eastern United States in the 1930s. Factory stores started to offer damaged or excess goods to employees at a low price. After some time, the audience expanded to include non-employees. In 1936, Anderson-Little (a men's clothing brand) opened an outlet store independent of its existing factories. Until the 1970s, the primary purpose of outlet stores was to dispose of excess or damaged goods. By the 1970s shoppers from all over the East Coast of the United States and Canada were being lured into Reading by its dozens of factory outlet stores.
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