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Cheap Book Explores The High Cost of Discount Culture

By consumerist.com on August 4, 2009 10:52 PM 149 Comments

—>A new book out by Ellen Ruppel Shell, Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, is getting all kinds of rave reviews. Shell takes as her argument a rather counterintuitive idea: that cheap goods and services are anything but. One dollar t-shirts end up costing a lot more when you factor such purchases' ripple effects. More »